Vietnam’s new biometric ID cards raise fears of privacy violations, data breaches
Critics of the amended law voiced their fears over risks of privacy and potential data violations after authorities announced their plan to gather and store citizens' sensitive personal data through biometrics.
Communist Vietnam’s amended 2023 Law on Identification, which comes into effect on July 1, will mandate iris scans, fingerprints and facial images as biometric data to be collected and stored for the registration of Vietnamese identity cards.
According to Le Tan Toi, Vietnam’s Chairman of the National Defense and Security Committee, an individual’s iris does not change over time and is a better basis for identity verification than other characteristics, like fingerprints, that may be damaged or altered.
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