The NSW Government has taken a major step forward in ‘damage control’ from stolen identity documents, introducing the Identity Protection and Recovery Bill into the NSW Parliament earlier this month.
The new legislation will establish a fraud check service, allowing government agencies and other accredited organisations to confirm whether identity document (ID) details have been compromised or stolen.
The new Compromised Credential Register will send up a red flag when someone tries to use an ID document that has been stolen or compromised, in a similar way to how stolen number plates can be flagged by automatic plate recognition…