Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

The legislation is very clear. It's a voluntary system—that is, people, for their personal engagement with government, have the right to choose whether they use a digital ID or they use the more traditional way of engaging with government. In terms of penalties, the legislation does set up the ACCC as the regulator of the system. That would be the way that complaints and other issues would be assessed. So there is a system in place. I don't have the legislation right in front of me, but we were very clear that putting the digital ID ecosystem in legislation is actually about ensuring that it is safe and that consumers' needs are fundamental, are front and centre and are protected through a regulated system. At the moment, I have a digital ID, but it doesn't exist under a regulated system. All that the legislation did was take a lot of what's happening now outside of a regulated system and regulate it.