Digital ID Accreditation Rules consultation
This consultation has concluded. The Digital ID Accreditation Rules have now been made by the Minister and are available on the Federal Register of Legislation.
For more information on the Digital ID Act 2024 and associated instruments visit the Digital ID Act page.
How your input contributed
Your input has helped shape the final Digital ID Accreditation Rules
In 2023, the Australian Government released an exposure draft of the proposed Digital ID Accreditation Rules for consultation. Consultation ran from 19 September 2023 to 31 October 2023.
The legislation will provide strong regulation for accredited Digital ID service providers to make sure they keep your information private and secure, if you choose to create and reuse a Digital ID to access online services.
The legislation will also enable the expansion of the Australian Government Digital ID System to include private sector organisations that choose to participate.
How you voiced your opinion
The information below and the accompanying documents were provided to support participants to provide informed feedback.
The key consultation questions were included in Your guide to the Digital ID Accreditation Rules under Consultation documentation below, as well as any a template for feedback, including all the Accreditation Rules consultation questions was provided.
What was the outcome of this consultation?
Your response informed refinements to the Digital ID Accreditation Rules.
What happened to my information?
Submissions to the Accreditation Rules will not be published or publicly available.
Data will be kept private and secured, and stored on encrypted drives or computers, protected by passwords and firewalls.
For more information, see the Australian Privacy Principle 5 notice at the end of this page.
What’s in the Accreditation Rules?
The Accreditation Rules will underpin the voluntary Accreditation Scheme for Digital ID service providers established by the Digital ID Bill. The Accreditation Rules will be an evolution of the Australian Government’s framework for its existing accreditation scheme, the Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF).
Your Guide to the Accreditation Rules explains differences between the current TDIF and the Accreditation Rules.
The Accreditation Rules contain global best practices and standards for safe, secure, accessible and privacy enhancing Digital ID services.
The Accreditation Rules detail the requirements for a Digital ID service provider to become accredited and maintain their accreditation, covering matters such as fraud management, protective security, privacy, and usability and accessibility.
The Accreditation Rules also set out operational matters about how service providers will demonstrate their compliance with the Accreditation Rules.
Structure of the legislation
Consultation documentation
- TEMPLATE Feedback document - Accreditation Rules (DOC 157KB) - Please provide your feedback to the Accreditation Rules using this document.
- Your guide to the Digital ID Accreditation Rules (PDF 941.33 KB)
- Draft Digital ID Accreditation Rules Sept 2023 (PDF 1.6 MB)
Consultation has closed. Thank you to all who provided feedback.
Privacy principle notice
This survey and the submission of feedback to the Department of Finance (Finance) is voluntary. Any personal and sensitive information included in your responses to form questions and your submission will be collected by Finance and is protected by law, including the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act). Please do not provide personal information relating to other people unless you have sought their consent to do so.
This information is being collected by the Department of Finance (Finance) as part of consultation activities on the 2023 Digital ID Legislation Exposure Draft. The feedback and personal information collected in this form will be used to refine draft legislation. The information provided in your submissions may also be analysed by third party certified service provider artificial intelligence software to inform analysis of feedback themes across submissions. Third parties who contract with Finance are contractually bound to protect personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act.
The personal information collected in this survey may be used to contact you for further information about your feedback. If you’ve consented, Finance will retain your contact details which may be used to communicate with you about Digital ID in the future.
Your submission to the Digital ID legislation will be published on the digitalidentity.gov.au website unless stated otherwise by you in the survey. If you wish for your submission on the to be published but to remain anonymous, or for your submission not to be published, please tick the appropriate box when completing the form. Finance will not use or disclose the personal information collected in this form for another purpose without your consent unless required or authorised by law.
For more information about how Finance handles your personal information, including information about access to or correction of your personal information, please visit our Privacy Policy at: https://www.finance.gov.au/publications/policy/department-finance-privacy-policy.
