Australia's latest horrible idea: passports that are only data in a server.

They call them "cloud passports", using the standard buzzword. There is no "cloud" — only other people's computers.

The passport data would be stored in some computer, but whose? And how will that computer be run?

Storing passports as data in some server will eliminate the problem that tens of thousand of passports are lost or stolen (mostly lost) individually, and introduce the problem that millions could be stolen at once digitally.

I suspect this will also involve a lot more biometric data than now.