UAE: Identity Card & Government-Military-National/Identity Cards

[ChristineMarie]

Nigeria: 16 Year Old's now to obtain National ID Cards

He said that the new cards would be all-inclusive because it would be used for all banking transactions by Nigerians.

"We are introducing a multi-purpose cards, otherwise known as smart cards.

"The difference between the existing national identity cards and the one being proposed is that the smart card will contain memory metal chips.

"While the existing national identity card captures only six human fingers, the smart card will capture 10 fingers.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201001290214.html

[ChristineMarie]

NIA resumes registration in Accra

The National Identification Authority (NIA) is to begin the mass registration exercise in the last zone of the Accra Region from Monday, February 1 to Thursday, February 11.

The areas are Adabraka, Tudu, Asylum Down, Osu, Ringway Estates, Labone, Cantonments, La, Burma Camp, Teshie, Nungua, Batsona, Alajo and Pig Farm.

The rest are Kotobabi, New Town, Kokomlemle, Roman Ridge, Airport Residential Area, Dzorwulu, Abelenkpe, Shiashie, Okponglo, Legon, Mempeasem, Maamobi, Nima and Kanda.

A press statement issued by the Public Affairs Department of the NIA reminded the public that the exercise is free.

http://news.myjoyonline.com/news/201001/41347.asp

[ChristineMarie]

Young people in London to get National Identity Cards

The rollout to young people in the capital follows the successful uptake of cards in Greater Manchester and the North West of England.

The 30 identity card provides a secure and convenient way for people to prove their identity whether they are travelling in Europe - the cards can also be used in place of a passport for travel throughout Europe - or buying age-restricted goods.

http://www.webnewswire.com/node/501498

[ChristineMarie]

Nagoya mayor rejects digitized national ID system, arguing people are not cattle

The Mayor of Nagoya says that he wants to withdraw the city from Japan’s digitized national identification system known as Jyuki Net, arguing that the system treats people like cattle and is Stalin-esque.

Jyuki Net is a digitalized national identification registry system sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), and was started around ten years ago in an effort to increase efficiency and accuracy, and reduce costs, relating to the upkeep of basic identity records for such things as voter registration, national health care, and social security

The system is currently used by all but two relatively small cities across the nation. Those two cities have cited concerns over protection of privacy, among other reasons for not connecting. MIC has tried, but been unsuccessful at bringing them on board, according to Jiji Press. However, now Nagoya’s Mayor, Takashi Kawamura, wants to remove the major city of around 2.26 million people from the system.

http://www.examiner.com/x-16352-Japa...are-not-cattle

[ChristineMarie]

Tyndall Switching to New ID System

Guards at Tyndall's gates will scan a bar code on the ID card that contains information, like a person's name and height.

7,000 people have already registered with the Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS). But, Tyndall officials are trying to let retirees know about the change.

It is a Department of Defense initiative that streamlines ID and security systems on base. It lets officials know who should be allowed on the premises.

MSgt. A.J. Perreault said the system would "allow us the ability to better secure the base, gives the security force members at the gate better ability to secure the area before they get a look at the ID card."

Shirley Rich, who updated her card, said, the process was painless: "Just presenting my ID card and put some information in the computer, take a fingerprint and you get your ID card back and you're on your way.

http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/83588717.html

[ChristineMarie]

Originally Posted by Blessedx4

btw that means I've read the first few- but bookmarked and copied and pasted the rest of the articles Chris. I've not gotten around to reading them all yet but hopefully will soon :lol

Looks like alot of good stuff.

btw for us here. I wonder if "the number" for us would be our social security number? or something else.

SS# is already sort of Officially our number. Try getting a job, going to school etc without it.

Another set of numbers I'm having to give more and more- like at the doctors office and at Walmart is 1) my birthdate and 2) my phone number and sometimes 3) my street address

Walmart will not even hand me my prescription without my providing the first 2. It would be convenient if we had a swipe card with all that information and I don't have to provide it every single time. Maybe it could have "points" that each company gets on they specific information that it needs somehow :think (my mind is wandering - sorry :lol)

"Of the three forms of identification we have in the states - the other two being the passport and driver's license - the Social Security card is the one that unlocks your life," says Frog designer Laura Richardson.

To that end the design firm presents the Troika, an aluminum SS card with a multifunctional screen.

"By combining the familiarity and proportions of a standard ID card with the durability of a water-resistant, flexible screen and the security of biometrics, a card like this could revolutionize the future of identification," says Richardson.

http://www.dexigner.com/product/news-g17542.html

http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/07/soc...ch-troika.html

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/04/troika-social-s.php


The Department of Defense is working to protect the identity of service members and DoD employees.

The plan has begun to remove the social security numbers from the common access cards, the U.S. DoD smart card issued as standard identification for active duty and reserve military personnel, civilian employees, non-DoD government employees and state employees of the National Guard and eligible contractor personnel, according to DoD CAC Web site, www.cac.mil.

Military Removes Social Security Numbers From Common Access Cards Cards

The first phase will consist of removing the social security numbers from service members' dependants' cards, which began at the end of the 2008, and replacing them with X's.

The second phase will be comprised of removing the social security number from all CAC cardholders, slated to take place at the end of 2009. The difference, however, is Geneva Conventions identification cards will retain the last four digits of their SSN.

The third phase of the plan is to remove SSNs from the barcode of the cards, scheduled to take place in 2012.

http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news...w.php&id=32216

SSS to issue multi-purpose smart card

Filipinos will soon find it easier to transact with various government agencies when the Social Security System (SSS) starts rolling out the Unified Multipurpose Identification (UMID) card system by the end of the year.

Romulo L. Neri, SSS president and chief executive officer, said the state pension fund will start issuing the UMID cards by September or October if bidding for suppliers will be completed next month.

Executive Order (EO) 420 issued in 2005 has mandated all government agencies to adopt the UMID. The move was aimed at saving costs on part of the government and the public as this removes the need to produce multiple ID cards as well as maintain redundant databases.

http://www.bworldonline.com/BW041809/content.php?id=075

Smart card, biometrics on the way for Social Security card?

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is exploring the use of biometrics and smart cards for a new Social Security card, SecureIDNews has learned. This could lead to the issuance of as many as 300 million electronic credentials in the next six to eight years.

There are two different ideas being floated when it comes to the Social Security number, sources say. One involves enrolling individuals, capturing the fingerprint biometric and then linking it to the Social Security number. The biometric data would be stored and checked against a database for official functions.


http://www.thirdfactor.com/2009/07/2...-security-card


This is not just here. This is a Global Initiative.

Peru will launch new digital ID cards for citizens

In order to enhance the security and to avoid bothersome paperwork and administrative procedures, the National Registry of Identity and Civil Status (Reniec has just announced the launch of the electronic National Document of Identity (DNI in Spanish.)

http://www.livinginperu.com/news-979...cards-citizens

Kenya: Citizens to Get New ID Cards From January

Nairobi — Kenyans will start getting third-generation identity cards starting January 2010, a year behind the original schedule set out by the Immigration and Registration of Persons ministry.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200908100769.html

Rwanda: ID Project to Be Institutionalized

Kigali — After two years of operating as a project, the National Identity Card Project (NID) is set to become a permanent institution by next year.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200908100421.html

The ties that bind...

Page 22 mandates audits of all employers that self-insure. Page 29. It admits on page 29 that your health care will be rationed. Page 30: A government will decide what treatments and benefits you get, and unlike an insurer, there is... Well, there's an appeals process that you don't even want to mess with that. Page 58: Every person will be issued a national ID health card. Page 59: The federal government will have direct real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer. Page 239: The bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid, meaning there will be Medicaid cuts. The president is out there saying that there won't be. Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment. Government dictates how your life ends. The Washington Post read the section, Section 1233 and came to the same disturbing conclusion.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/dai...114.guest.html

National ID: Biometrics Pinned to Social Security Cards
Ryan Singel 05.15.07

The Social Security card faces its first major upgrade in 70 years under two immigration-reform proposals slated for debate this week that would add biometric information to the card and finally complete its slow metamorphosis into a national ID.

The leading immigration proposal with traction in Congress would force employers to accept only a very limited range of approved documents as proof of work eligibility, including a driver's license that meets new federal Real ID standards, a high-tech temporary work visa or a U.S. passport with an RFID chip. A fourth option is the notional tamper-proof biometric Social Security card, which would replace the text-only design that's been issued to Americans almost without change for more than 70 years.

http://www.wired.com/politics/online...7/05/biometric

Schumer calling for biometric Social Security cards

Monday, April 27, 2009 in News

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) is proposing biometric Social Security cards as a way to better curb illegal immigration into the country, according to a Newsday article.

Schumer has taken over as chairman of the Senate immigration subcommittee from Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and may play a more important role in immigration policy.

http://www.secureidnews.com/2009/04/...security-cards

Smart card, biometrics on the way for Social Security card?

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is exploring the use of biometrics and smart cards for a new Social Security card, SecureIDNews has learned. This could lead to the issuance of as many as 300 million electronic credentials in the next six to eight years.

http://www.secureidnews.com/2009/07/...-security-card

Do We Need a National ID?

Congress is considering a controversial new plan called Pass ID that would require all American driver’s licenses to meet a set of national standards—creating, in effect, a national ID card. On one side of the debate are those who say the cards are necessary for national security. The idea arose after the 9/11 Commission called for standardized IDs, noting that “travel documents are as important as weapons” for terrorists operating on U.S. soil. Privacy advocates oppose the cards, saying they’d give the government too much access to citizens’ personal information.

http://www.parade.com/news/intellige...tional-id.html

[ChristineMarie]

Datacard Group to Provide Solution for National Identity System in Guatemala

Datacard Group, the world leader in secure ID and card personalization solutions, announces that they were chosen to supply card personalization equipment and software for the new national identification system planned in Guatemala. The country’s Registro Nacional de Personas (“RENAP”) intends to issue electronic identity (eID) cards to more than 11 million residents to both improve the process of citizen authorization and reduce benefits fraud. Issuance of the cards began July 1, 2009.

Guatemala’s new civil registry database will utilize Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) and facial recognition biometrics. When a citizen enrolls in the program, two fingerprints will be taken and a faceprint will be made using facial recognition software. These biometrics, along with the citizen’s biographic information, will be stored both in the civil registry database and on a smart chip imbedded into the identification card.

Laser engraved identity cards
Minnetonka, MN--Datacard Group, a provider of secure ID and card personalization solutions, was chosen to supply card personalization equipment and software for the new national identification system planned in Guatemala. The country's Registro Nacional de Personas (RENAP) intends to issue electronic identity (eID) cards to more than 11 million residents to both improve the process of citizen authorization and reduce benefits fraud. Issuance of the cards began July 1, 2009.
Guatemala's new civil registry database will utilize Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) and facial recognition biometrics.



http://www.industrial-lasers.com/dis...identity-cards

Pass ID: Real ID Reanimated

URL="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08/pass-id-real-id-reanimated"]
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08/pass-id-real-id-reanimated[/url]

The PASS ID Act (S. 1261) seeks to make many of the same ineffectual, dangerous changes the REAL ID Act attempted to impose. Fundamentally, PASS ID operates on the same flawed premise of REAL ID -- that requiring various "identity documents" (and storing that information in databases for later access) will magically make state drivers' licenses more legitimate, which will in turn improve national security.

Time for a national ID card?

In an effort to block people from using stolen Social Security numbers to falsely prove their eligibility for employment, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants the government to create a computerized identity card system that would use biometrics to match cardholders to their Social Security numbers.
So far, the approach would limit use of smart cards to employment applications. However, experts have floated the idea of using such cards in a variety of other transactions, from commerce to health care services, in physical environments and digitally for online authentication.


http://fcw.com/articles/2009/08/24/n...id-debate.aspx

Government plans to link criminal records to ID cards

Privacy advocates have reacted angrily to reports that the government plans to link national identity records to criminal records for background checks on people who work with children and vulnerable people.

Up to 11 million such workers could be affected immediately if the plan goes ahead.

Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of privacy advocates NO2ID, said the move was consistent with the various forms of coercion strategy to create so-called volunteers for national ID cards.

"Biometrics are part of the search for clean, unique identifiers," Phil Booth said. He said the idea was patently ridiculous when the Home Office was planning to allow high street shops and the Post Office to take fingerprints for the ID card.


http://www.computerweekly.com/Articl...o-id-cards.htm

Electronic national ID cards planned

Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said that the government was planning to introduce an electronic national identity card system under which all the citizens of the country would be provided a smart card as their national identity card.
"All the information related to a citizen will be contained in that card," said Prime Minister Nepal addressing the inaugural ceremony of the Government Integrated Data Centre's (GIDC) newly constructed building set up on the Singh Durbar premises.


http://www.ekantipur.com/kolnews.php?&nid=212849

Defending the US with biometrics

Biometric technologies are enabling the DoD to identify and detain suspected enemies and terrorists, improving citizen security both home and away. Dr. Myra Gray, director of the Biometrics Task Force, explains how and why these biometric solutions are being deployed
The Biometrics Task Force (BTF), located in Arlington, Virginia, USA, is a US Department of Defense (DoD) organisation dedicated to developing new ways to protect the country using biometric applications. It leads DoD activities to programme, integrate, and synchronise biometric technologies and capabilities, and to operate and maintain the DoD’s authoritative database.


http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com...h-biometrics-/

The Case for a Digital Social Security Card

Is it time for a Social Security card makeover? Not the whole program, just the card. Today, the Social Security card is a piece of paper with a number on it that probably sits in a drawer at home. Social Security numbers, on the other hand, are all over the place. Employers, banks, credit card issuers and bureaus, insurance companies, hospitals, doctors, government agencies and others use Social Security numbers to identify all of us.

The paper card could be replaced with a credit card-sized piece of plastic that contains a small computer, or microprocessor, with special security software that actively protects the owner's Social Security number.

The secure computer and biometric in the card provide digital verification. It is easily carried, works both online and in person, and the owner's own fingerprint biometric and other security features protect against the misuse of a lost or stolen card.

http://www.worlduin.blogspot.com/

http://blogs.govinfosecurity.com/posts.php?postID=326

[ChristineMarie]

Tyndall Switching to New ID System

Guards at Tyndall's gates will scan a bar code on the ID card that contains information, like a person's name and height.

7,000 people have already registered with the Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS). But, Tyndall officials are trying to let retirees know about the change.

It is a Department of Defense initiative that streamlines ID and security systems on base. It lets officials know who should be allowed on the premises.

Shirley Rich, who updated her card, said, the process was painless: "Just presenting my ID card and put some information in the computer, take a fingerprint and you get your ID card back and you're on your way.

http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/83588717.html

[ChristineMarie]

DMV proposes a major policy shift to biometric systems with significant fiscal and policy implications through an expedited 30-day opt out process

http://www.worldprivacyforum.org/pdf...s_02072009.pdf

Use of Biometrics in the Virginia Driver’s License and Identification Card Process

http://jcots.state.va.us/2005%20Cont...esentation.pdf

[ChristineMarie]

Tanzania selecting firm to issue first national ID card

The ID project is said to cost $176 million, with the first batch expected to release by the end of the year. The smart cards IDs will feature information used for tax collection, criminal detection, drivers’ licenses, immigration and banking.

http://www.secureidnews.com/2010/02/...tional-id-card