With the launch yesterday of Australia Post’s new ‘Digital Mailbox’, I took particular interest in how the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy described how it can be used.
From the ministerial press release:
“Use the Digital Mailbox as a personal digital vault to store important documents.”
Given Australia Post’s status as a government business enterprise, and the government’s proposed data retention scheme, would I be wanting to store my personal ‘important documents’ under the auspices of what is ultimately a government entity?
Given their current appetite for our personal information?
I don’t think I would be wanting to do that.
I suggest nobody else should want to do that either.
So don’t do that.