The Albanese Government is strengthening Australia’s identity protection framework with the introduction of IDLock, a new digital identity protection service designed to give Australians direct control over how their identity documents are used for verification.
The new service will be available securely through myGov next year and will enable Australians to block, unblock and monitor the use of eligible identity documents through the Document Verification Service at any time. This will help Australians protect themselves from identity crime, scams and the impacts of data breaches before harm occurs.
IDLock is being developed as a new way for people to access the protections of the Credential Protection Register. Established by the Commonwealth in 2022, the register helps prevent compromised identity documents from being used to fraudulently establish an individual’s identity.
Since late 2022, the register has blocked over 830,000 fraudulent identity verification attempts, averaging around 18,000 each month. This demonstrates the important role the register plays in protecting Australians when their identity credentials have been compromised.
IDLock will be released initially to a small cohort of users for early access and testing later this year, ahead of a broader national rollout in 2027.
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