Re: Digital Identity
As far as I am aware the UK has not yet introduced the digital identity to the extent you have in Australia. Things are going that way, but slowly I believe. It would be a good idea and save a lot of problems I reckon. Some of which you describe as having access to via the apps we have to access separately, from what I see this allows various ways of private companies charging for services which are free or very much less costly than happens when similar websites are accessed.
I welcome the day when various government departments and others can be accessed more easily. The modern digital age seems to be creating the need for so many passwords etc. that it's a minefield. A while back I 'lost' access to my laptop, on buying a new one I had so many various passwords / customer account numbers etc. for just the usual utilities plus pensions, insurances and financial services like investments and banks that it was a nightmare trying to set everything up again. This was made worse by the fact I was on a new laptop, which it seems caused further problems when trying to set up new passwords. In all I believe there were around 21 different accounts I had to sort out, a real problem.
Why, for example, do we have to carry all our driving documents: Driving Licence, Insurance, MoT certificates when it could all be on our phones, it's beyond me. If stopped by police and we are not carrying any ID and cannot prove who we are we can be arrested. They have digital access to all the driving documents etc. but it seems we do not!
Out of curiosity I did search to see what was happening in this area and found the UK government website below, assuming this is the latest news (September 2020) we are way behind yourselves in this:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/n...gital-identity
Even something like your QR code and the ways these can be used doesn't seem to be something a lot of people are aware of. The younger generation though are very savvy when it comes to this but the older generation don't seem to be.
Interesting post anyway Bruce so thanks for that. Also by the way, your blog and the latest about your recent journeys with your daughter are very interesting to read. That was accessed in a way I had never thought of, not until my granddaughter explained about QR codes, the youngsters' minds just seem to be 'wired' differently to those of their grandparents!