There is no such thing as 'issuing ID cards that cause citizens to be monitored'

Sharing about the amendment of the CCCD Law at the group discussion on the morning of June 10, Minister of Public Security To Lam said that the drafting committee determined the goal of the bill to create favorable conditions for people and businesses.

Minister of Public Security To Lam

The second is to protect the people, not to let anyone's personal privacy be violated, no one can hack into and get data from the Personal Data Center.

“In the past, we had a hard time finding lost elderly people, mentally ill people, lost children, not knowing who they were or where they were, or people who had accidents on the road, but now with the management of the population database, we know. It is very good for finding lost elderly people, children, mainly to protect the vulnerable,” said Mr. To Lam.

The leader of the Ministry of Public Security said that in reality, the number of people "left behind" could be up to millions of people, because they are never counted because they do not have ID cards, household registration, and are not managed by anyone.

The police commander shared: "This is a very sad number. In remote areas, there are people who have never left their villages or hamlets, mainly the disadvantaged, the elderly without support, sick, with no need to connect socially, and have never had their photo taken. There is a 70-year-old man who has never had his ID photo taken and is very emotional, they say that in the future, if anything happens, this will be their memorial photo."

Even in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, there are hundreds of thousands of people who come here to live, from shoe shiners, street vendors, and hired workers. "They also grow up, have beautiful love, have families, and have children. But the children are born with the same fate as their parents, without a household registration, without papers, and cannot go to school because they do not have a birth certificate. When they grow up, they continue to shine shoes, and fall into a very difficult life," said Mr. To Lam.

According to him, several hundred thousand people like that in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been discovered through the Covid-19 pandemic, because they do not have a fixed place to live, even when it comes to relief, they say they do not have a kitchen, work day by day, eat day by day, life is very difficult. This number is not small, isolated, every region has similar circumstances. Managing population data and issuing ID cards will help a large number of these vulnerable people.

Third is social management, with current electronic transactions, many people say they do not think that people and businesses are facilitated like that. Previously, one-stop shop was already very convenient, but now there is no door, because the management is at the root, people have legal status and clear identity. One-stop shop is now gradually becoming a thing of the past, because you can still do procedures with state agencies while sitting at home.

"The Ministry of Public Security has 245 administrative procedures, all of which have been done online, from passport issuance. Compared to the scene of people queuing up to apply for a passport with a whole set of documents from the ward police confirmation before..., now it is very convenient," said the Minister of Public Security.

According to Minister To Lam, some people are deprived of some civil rights but still have identity cards, still have the right to own property, register as homeowners, landowners, car owners, etc. For example, people in prison who have been re-educated for a period of time still have the right to reside, and their identity cards are still there. Or people under 14 years old, if eligible, can still be issued one. Babies are given passports from birth, go abroad with their parents, and now have electronic identification institutionalized from their birth certificates.

"Previously, the birth certificate was the only document to prove boarding the plane. Many funny and sad stories arose, such as borrowing birth certificates or declaring that birth certificates were lost to board the plane... Recently, working with the education sector has been extremely convenient for children to take the exam. We can provide the education sector with information on how many children are going to school in this commune this year, the number of boys and girls..., and take the initiative in data," said Minister To Lam.

People of Vietnamese origin residing in Vietnam are granted identity cards.

For people of Vietnamese origin residing in Vietnam, they are recognized by society and have the right to conduct transactions, so they must have documents. They do not have nationality, passports, identification cards or identity cards. We issue identity cards to them. Foreigners who are naturalized and live long-term in Vietnam are also issued ID cards.

Every day there are thousands of attacks that cannot get through the protection system. Even internally, we have to strictly protect the physical, network, and connection. Fortunately, since the establishment of the Personal Data Center, no one has complained.

Minister of Public Security To Lam

Integrating information into the ID card will have a report. Strive to have every citizen have an ID card before July 30. Currently, 19/63 provinces have completed 100%, if every province completes, the whole country will complete. There is still a rate of error, but it will be edited with the goal of "correct, sufficient, clean, and alive" data.

"There will be no population census in the near future, saving 1,500 billion VND. We only spent 3,000 billion VND on ID cards and population data, and will never have to do it again. If we save for ministries, branches and people, it will be hundreds of thousands of billions of VND.

For example, connecting health insurance data saves hundreds of millions of USD. The cost of issuing a driver's license is 135,000 VND, the cost of issuing a diploma certificate is 5,000 - 10,000 VND..., people have to spend a lot of money but now they don't have to spend anymore," Mr. Lam said and affirmed that it will save society, the Government, and the State a lot of money, reduce management, and reduce staff.

In particular, according to him, CCCD is not only used domestically but can also be used abroad. For example, in Europe, between countries there is no need for a passport; with ASEAN, there is currently no need for a visa but is striving to not need a passport but only need CCCD to travel between countries. Vietnam is one of the few countries using QR Code and chip, which contains a lot of information and meets development needs.

"In the near future, it is proposed that the CCCD law will remove fingerprints and formatting. If it is incorporated into management technology, no one will be the same as anyone else, so there is no need to worry about whether changing one's appearance will have any impact," Minister To Lam said.

In particular, the leader of the Ministry of Public Security also said, "some reactionary forces claim that issuing CCCDs causes citizens to be monitored." However, he affirmed that there is no monitoring, there is no signal in the card. These arguments are just distortions, causing confusion among the people.

Minister To Lam also said that no one has the right to keep the citizen's CCCD card. For example, when going to a hotel, they ask to keep the ID card or passport, but no one can keep it because it is the legal entity of the people.

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