Is the ATO forcing voice-authentication now?
It was opt-in last time I interacted with them, but it doesn't seem to be the case this year, getting forced through a prompt of saying “In Australia my voice identifies me”.
Why am I calling the ATO you ask? Well, because of a weird scammy call that seems to have been explicily set-up to record the answerer's voice (and knew my name).
Surely those two things are unrelated?
#australia #biometrics #IdentityTheft
Olivier Mehani
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2026-06-22 06:45:48 UTC
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