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Australian Minister for Human Services, the Hon Joe Hockey MP, has established the Access Card Consumer and Privacy Task Force to address consumer and privacy issues related to development of the health and social services access card.

The primary focus of the Task Force is to address the tension between meeting consumer demand for increased Access card functionality and any concerns consumers may have about data protection and privacy issues.

According Australian IT, the Access Card Consumer and Privacy Taskforce has been deluged with more than 70 "high quality" submissions on the federal Government's proposed health and welfare services card.

"In particular, I would like to mention concerns raised by the Australian Medical Association into the use of the card for emergency information," Joe Hockey said. "We will continue to work with the AMA as it is a feature on which we have had very popular feedback."

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