22 Nov 2022

Government pushing ahead with identity checking system

From Morning Report, 8:39 am on 22 November 2022

The government is pushing on with an online identity checking system despite persistent gaps around its implications for humans rights, ethics and Māori.

The Identity Check system is being tested in a nationwide pilot and on beneficiaries.

That's despite no privacy, human rights and ethics framework, and no specific Māori engagement by Internal Affairs 

Larger public agencies or companies could each use it more than a quarter million times a year. 

Phil Pennington is looking at this