RealMe - "Safe, secure and officially backed by the government"

[Akzle]

a person is only a corporate body.
Fucked if i know what it has to do with the meat suit.

[Tazz]

Received an email today perporting to be from the Department of Internal Affairs about a new secure online ID system that the gubbermint is launching, and since verified during a call to NZ Post. The system is called RealMe and will provide people who register with it proof of identity online. Just give them your details then go down to your local Post Shop so they can photograph you....... That will be the fuckin day

Out of interest, do you have a Facebook/Twitter/Google+ account? Do you use your EFTPOS card for most transactions? If the answer to one or either of these is yes, you're too late to worry about your privacy =P

[awa355]

Using the Dept of Internal Affairs website, births, deaths and marriages for researching non historical bdm's requires a 'Realme' id.

I tried mine yesterday but it wouldn't accept my password. Will ph them tomorrow. I have seen nothing about a photo requirement, ( yet ).

[Road kill]

That would explain the source of my email. Adding a photo to the mix is an added level though... Just have to wear a tin foil hat for that occasion

I have four copies of my drivers licence because I returned from over seas and had to renew as I worked back through the different classes I held before letting them lapse " at home" while over seas.
The photo on each is different to the others.
It makes no difference to gov't spying but it gives the local plods something to wank on about when I refuse to up date just for them.
That alone is worth it,,,,fucking clowns know who I am anyway.