Re: Linking civil registration and vital statistics to identity management systems

From: Ish Sookun <ish_at_lsl.digital>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:00:48 +0400

Hi SM,

Did you receive a reply from the Data Protection Office?

Regards,

-- 
Ish Sookun
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On 04/10/2017 09:12 AM, S Moonesamy wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> Thank you for the reply dated 16 March.  I browsed the web site of the
> Data Protection Office to find information about the National Identity
> Card or the law or regulation related to the National Identity Card.  I
> found it unusual that there wasn't any information about that topic
> given that there has been a lot of discussion over the last few years
> about privacy in relation to the National Identity Card.  I would be
> grateful if the Data Protection Office could consider publishing the
> laws and regulations related to the National Identity Card on its web
> site as it would help citizens who are searching for that information.
> 
> There was a news article in Le DefiMedia on 8 April (
> http://www.defimedia.info/empreintes-stockees-ou-pas ) in which there is
> the following:
> 
>   "Et lorsqu’elle a demandé s’il était nécessaire qu’elle se déplace pour
>    qu’on lui prenne son empreinte, les officiers lui ont lancé : « Pa
> traka,
>    nou ankor ena so lanprint. »"
> 
> It was worrying to read in the news article that the citizen's
> fingerprints were collected in 2014 and that government officials are
> quoted as saying that the data controller or data processor has retained
> the records of the fingerprint.
> 
> I wrote to the data controller for the National Identity Card on 16
> March and again on 27 March about the User Declaration Form.  I did not
> receive any reply.  According to the Ministry of Technology,
> Communication and Innovation, there is the following text in the User
> Declaration Form:
> 
>    "I have no objection that my fingerprint minutiae be processed and
>     recorded for the purpose of producing my identity card.  I
> understand that
>     this information will be erased permanently from the register once the
>     identity card has been printed."
> 
> Why is the citizen being asked to state that he/she understands that the
> fingerprint minutiae will be erased permanently from the register when
> he/she does not have the means to determine whether that is being done? 
> Is that in line with data protection principles?
> 
> Would the citizen be giving his/her informed consent by signing the User
> Declaration Form?
> 
> Is there any control by the Data Protection Office on the sharing of
> personal data, collected for the purposes of producing a National
> Identity Card, with other government agencies or it left to the other
> government agencies once there is a law or regulation for the other
> government agencies to do that?  Is it incumbent upon the data
> controller to ensure that the citizen is fully aware of the arrangements
> for the linking of personal data which is being collected?
> 
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
> 
> 
> 
> 

Received on Thu Apr 13 2017 - 12:01:12 PST