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It's not what you see, it's what goes on behind the scenes. Australia, the warrantless colony.
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In this day and age of internet connected appliances, so
called privacy has been thrown out the window, where many of these devices haemorrhage
your private, personal or confidential information.
In the colony we call Australia, governments (state and
federal) are very slow to enact law to protect their tax slave population in
this digital world, where conversely they expedite law that punishes or
generates revenue from fines and alike.
A new wave of data collection devices have hit the shores of
this colony called wearables in this case smart watches and fitness bands,
where they bleed data all over the place and one does not have to be tech savvy
to mop it up.
Germany has recognised the threat this poses to its children,
where as a result their sale has an outright ban.
Not so in this colony.
When a court orders the release of a child into the hands of
a paedophile, or a paedophile is released into the community next to a primary
school, what hope do the children (of corporate fodder) have of the law of ‘protecting’
them against online predators?
The actions and policies of the colonialists in office on
this land are deliberately ‘behind the eight ball’ on a global scale, much to
the detriment of the inhabitants.
Coles, Woolworths and Aldi back wider use of welfare cash controls
Supermarket giants, banks and fintechs are backing changes that pave
the way for a much wider roll out of the federal government's cashless
debit card.
Coles, Woolworths and Aldi co-operated on a report
recommending measures to make the card more accessible for both welfare
and non-welfare recipients.
The report is sitting with the government as it seeks crossbench and Labor support to extend the card trial, which to date has been limited to welfare recipients in two regional areas with big Aboriginal populations.
Co-authored
by the supermarkets, PayPal, EFTPOS, the Commonwealth Bank, Indue,
Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation and others, it urges the government
to adopt the latest technology to improve the card and increase its
effectiveness in reducing gambling and alcohol and drug abuse.
The
recommendations include creating a simple opt-in mechanism for
non-welfare recipients and creating a central white-label platform so
multiple financial institutions can distribute the card.
Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation supports wider use of the cashless debit card. Fairfax Media
Another key change would see
supermarkets apply technology to vet restricted purchases such as
alcohol and gift cards at the point of sale.
The report said
circumvention issues needed to be resolved before the card program could
be extended to a larger number of communities.
Reducing gambling and substance abuse
Independent
analysis shows the card has had some success in reducing gambling and
substance abuse in Ceduna in South Australia and the East Kimberley in
Western Australia where about 80 per cent of card users are Indigenous.
In
the next two sites earmarked for the trial – the Goldfields in WA and
the Bundaberg-Hervey Bay region in Queensland – most of card recipients
will be non-Indigenous.
A Department of Social Security spokesman
said it was anticipated that 86 per cent of those issued with a card in
Bundaberg-Hervey Bay would be non-Indigenous, as would about 56 per cent
in the Goldfields.
It is understood the report grew out of a
conversation between Commonwealth Bank boss Ian Narev and Mr Forrest,
who provided the catalyst for the card trial. They saw potential for
co-operation between financial institutions, fintechs and retailers to
improve the card.
Ubiquitous product offering
Minderoo Foundation special adviser
Bruce Mansfield said that as the card was rolled out to more sites it
was important to have a ubiquitous product offering available from all
financial institutions.
"The government of course would like to
make it easier for anyone who wishes to use the cashless debit card, or
is required to use it under whatever welfare arrangement is put in
place," he said.
"We think it is important they can go to multiple financial institutions, or the bank or building society they already use."
Other
recommendations target improvements in data recording and analytics
that would allow the government to track spending patterns.
Mr Mansfield, a former senior executive with Visa and EFTPOS, said the report had received a warm response from the government.
"The type of technology
that we support implementing is exactly the same as what the vast
majority of Australians have embraced over the past five to 10 years,
contactless technology, contact chip technology, mobile technology," he
said.
"The only thing different about the cashless debit card is the limiting and prohibition of certain products."
