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Measuring what matters has being introduced into the treasury portfolio,
the human chronome project has been in train for twenty years, their vision states we are living in the Anthropocene. Human activities are the dominant drivers of change on Earth. The goal of this project is to see through the noise, complexity, and scale of humanity to gain a physically-based understanding of what’s going on in the world, by quantifying human actions.
The global human day research paper discusses how they will build the measurement system and use the Sustainable Development Goals to structure behaviour. As I outlined in my blog How the Australian Government Manipulates You, the behaviour economics team hosted by the prime minister and cabinet modelled on Barrack Obama's 'nudge' unit requires scrutiny on how this framework could influence the digital twin space.
How will the value transfer system communicate, Fintech Australia and the Central Bank Digital Currency Project are designing a two way power of attorney language built into Consumer Data Rights.
The Commonwealth and the states and territories are working together to establish a Multilateral Data Sharing Agreement. All jurisdictions have signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing to supply data into the NDDA, with the first outputs planned to be available in early 2024. Digital and Data Committee SDDC Communique
Biometrically anchored digital identity credentials that work across state boundaries are set to become the national standard, 23rd of June the Data and Digital Ministers Meeting, unveiled the new National Strategy for Identity Resilience agreed to by Commonwealth, state and territory ministers. Governments have agreed to achieve interoperability between digital ID systems and credentials. The National Identity Proofing Guidelines will be updated in the next 12 months. Government will further develop the Credential Protection Register developed in response to the Optus data breach, a 'Mobile Phone Trust Score" system will be developed to help prevent fraud, allowing telecommunications providers to assign trust scores to mobile phone numbers based on risk factors such as sim swaps, tenure of phone plan and virtual private numbers.
Facial recognition laws could be reintroduced alongside new digital identity legislation. The Face Verification Service design can be found on the Australian Government Architecture Website. The redacted Strategic Leadership Group freedom of information indicates the government could introduce a new bill for the national roll out, the exposure draft is expected by September, there is discussion of a digital specific regulator. The World Economic Forum's governance framework for the responsible use of facial recognition in law enforcement investigations addresses the need for a set of concrete guidelines to ensure trustworthy and safe use of technology.
Salesforce contributes to the national digital framework through the human service deliverables such as the Department of Health and Aged Care and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, announces its high-assurance data security technology is integrated with the leading cloud service provider platforms from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, allowing users to establish strong safeguards around their sensitive data and applications in the cloud, and giving them greater control and flexibility.
In June 2023, Thales announced its interest in acquiring Tesserent which is one of Australia's and New Zealand's largest cybersecurity companies.
On 15 December 2021, the Minister for Home Affairs, the Hon Karen Andrews MP, and the US Attorney General, Merrick Garland, signed the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the United States of America on Access to Electronic Data for the Purpose of Countering Serious Crime (commonly referred to as the Australia-US CLOUD Act Agreement).
In my blog Hypersonic and Electromagnetic Warfare, What You Need to Know, my freedom of information requests to the Australia Communications and Media Authority were denied because the transcripts and video from RadComms 2022 didn't exist.
Maybe it's just a coincidence that Thales is sponsoring the Disruption and Deterrence: 2023 ASPI Conference. https://www.aspi.org.au/event/disruption-and-deterrence-2023-aspi-conference
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