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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Henry Belot

MyGov to use face or fingerprint recognition instead of passwords in bid to fight scams

Online scams
The Australian government will introduce passkeys for myGov accounts to try to safeguard them from scammers. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Australians will no longer have to remember their username and password to access government services online as part of an overhaul to stop billions of dollars being lost to scammers.

Earlier this week, the federal government revealed thousands of myGov accounts were being suspended each month out of concern they’d been breached by “scam-in-a-box” kits being sold by criminals on the dark web.

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