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From the 1st February, the Australian Department of Home Affairs will start collecting biometrics from Papua New Guineans who are applying for a visa to Australia. In line with international standards, a face and 10-digit fingerprint scan will be required and that data stored in Australia. In the same way that the Australian Government will expect visa applicants to trust them with their face and fingerprint data, YuTru – a locally-owned business asks that Papua New Guineans trust YuTru to do the same.

YuTru will be a single source of identity data, one that coincidentally would be compatible with the Australian Government’s system as it relies on much of the same underlying technologies and capabilities. However, by using YuTru, your data stays under the control of the YuTru scheme and is not sent off to other countries or businesses – like it is today with every institution you currently identify yourself at – they all have copies of your personal data. 

YuTru is trying to change how people currently provide their private data to businesses and governments, both here and abroad, too. Without YuTru, you will continue to permit companies and governments to hold your data, and often on terms that are not in your favour. YuTru’s business is to change that and protect you, while providing the service that businesses and governments can use to check a single-source-of-truth about your identity that you alone control. Think about the implications of that for a moment and consider giving your support to YuTru.