Joint comments on Proposed Federal ID Standard
Workplace privacy | ID cards | Biometrics — WPF, EFF, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and PrivacyActivism call for greater attention to privacy provisions of the proposed new Federal ID card, which will...
View ArticleStop REAL ID
REAL ID –– REAL ID is a national ID card program. Currently, the Department of Homeland Security is accepting public comments on the REAL ID plan. Comments will be accepted until Tuesday, May 8. The...
View ArticleWorld Privacy Forum and Electronic Frontier Foundation File Public Comments...
REAL ID | National ID — The World Privacy Forum and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed joint comments with the Department of Homeland Security about the proposed national ID system, REAL...
View ArticlePrivacy in India Video Series: WPF
India and Privacy — WPF has researched privacy extensively in India, and has documented a number of key privacy issues in a video series. So far, 5 videos in the series have been released. All of the...
View ArticlePam Dixon writes about India’s National ID Card in May/June issue of Foreign...
India’s national biometric ID card — In the May/June, 2013 issue of Foreign Policy Magazine, Pam Dixon writes about the privacy issues related to India’s national biometric ID card. In the piece,...
View ArticleJapan’s My Number program (マイナンバー法) gets independent Data Protection...
Japan — Under the mai nannbaa-ho (マイナンバー法) My Number Act (enacted May 13, 2013, also called the Social Benefits and Tax Number Act), Japan’s citizens will be assigned unique numbers to track income,...
View ArticleIndia’s Supreme Court issues interim orders in national biometric ID card...
India’s Supreme Court has issued an important ruling and interim orders about a much-watched case related to India’s national biometric IDs and how they are used. More than 800 million biometric IDs...
View ArticleData Visualization: Nations with Electronic Voter IDs — middle and lower...
About this Data Visualization: This interactive map displays the presence of voter IDs, including biometric voter IDs, in middle and lower income countries globally. Voter IDs in this dataset were...
View ArticleNational IDs Over Time: Interactive chart
About this Data Visualization: This interactive chart displays the chronological implementation of National IDs in countries globally, from 1850 to 2017. The raw dataset used to create the chart...
View ArticleNational IDs Around the World — Interactive map
About this Data Visualization: This interactive map displays the presence of National IDs and electronic IDs, including biometric IDs, in countries globally. The raw dataset used to create the map data...
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