Friday, November 2, 2012

What's The Deal With The New ID Cards?

Lalit wants the contract with Singapore cancelled. Which is what the MMM has asked. Hmm, I missed these episodes. So this new thingy is going to cost a billion rupees but there are some privacy vs. efficiency issues. Here's what I found.

P.S. The poll on municipal elections doesn't seem to be keeping the votes for long. Dunno why. Sorry about that.

22 comments:

akagugo said...

What's the big deal? Viewed like this, it sounds real scary. What puzzles me is that, for once on this present case, Navin was not obsessed with aping his motherland UK, of which he is so fond of copy-pasting blindly from what he saw there - as for the number plates and what not.

akagugo said...

And here is the biometric-thingy exposed. You'd be very well advised to listen carefully about the implications of the biometric tracking.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Scary stuff. We should definitely consider scrapping this. Btw, pretty good show by Bhadain and Collen.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Ala enn petisyon pu dir non a donn lamprint. Vote ek fer vote. Jaldi jaldi. Pu avoy enn mesaz kler guvernman. Pe rod 10,000 siniatir. Ti 120 gramatin, la 269.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

State seem to be flip-flopping again: it's suddenly worried about crime. But the crime rate wasn't always as bad as it is now. And this has nothing to do with identity cards. Don't forget that one financial watchdog was housed in the same building as one of the companies which was reported as being entangled in Ponzi schemes.

No, crime to a big big extent has more to do with the kind of policies that government implements. Like throwing 22,000 people into poverty during the past five years and creating a lot of inequality and killing the economy and having gaming houses everywhere and financing the stupid flat tax at the expense of our competitiveness will definitely make the smart id project look irrelevant.

Besides how do you explain that a couple of years ago, our government had a "Maurice, sans passport" scheme. French nationals needed only their simple ID cards which doesn't contain fingerprints to visit us instead of a passport that's more difficult to fake.

And here's some basic common sense from a french travel site about the "sans passport" thing.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Ala enn lot rezon pu pa donn amprint. Tiek sa link laosi.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Ankor enn bon lartik pu uver nu lizie.

Anonymous said...

Dire moi ene zaffaire. MMM qui pense lor la? Sitout Ton Polo.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Here is an interesting article about what we give up when we accept free emails etc. And how it helps to have smart judges around.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

La kur siprem finn dir pa neseser donn lamprint.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Lalit has new 12-word petition backed by 25 personalities. Go Lalit! Go!

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Now we have a hard disk that was recovered but never lost. Looks shaky.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Couple of interesting points:

1. Julienne was not allowed to sign her new card because she used her thumbprint on her old one but had since then gone to school and learn to sign her name (way to go Julienne!!!). I hope they will get her a new card.

2. Saw this interesting comment by RRStm on defi webtv: "Oublions ceux qui n'ont pas fait la conversion par négligence ou même par paresse. Mais, ceux qui attendent le verdict de la cour suprême pour faire la conversion vont se retrouver sans droit d'effectuer des démarches officielles après le 30 septembre si la cour n'aura pas statué d'ici le 23 septembre car le délai entre l'inscription et la réception de la carte est de 7 jours actuellement. Et, si n'ayant pas reçu leur carte le 1 octobre, ils arrivaient à mourir ce jour-là, comment feraient leurs proches pour les inhumer? L'ancienne carte sera-t-elle valide pour ce cas de figure?"

So the date limit has been extended again till October 31st.

Did SAJ say he's scrapping the Biometric ID if he gains power in the next elections?

akagugo said...

"Julienne was not allowed to sign her new card because she used her thumbprint on her old one but had since then gone to school and learn to sign her name"

What on Earth is going on here? So if, say, her marital status had changed in between, would she have been forced to keep her old one too? Or if she had, god forbid, lost her thumbprints through some accident or health condition between then and now, what have they have asked from her...?
Do these people realise how 'intelligenter' they seem to other normal people with some grams of common sense? Those who are otherwise more intellectually limited like me recall a nice comic strip: THA's "Absurdus Delirium". The title tells it all.

akagugo said...

The world's superpower itself is not safe from hacking: biodata of 21.5 million people are out there somewhere...

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

No jail terms or Rs100k fine if you don't have your card after March 31st except that will provide you with headaches wherever you're required to use your ID card. You may also not give your fingerprints, according to R&A, to leverage what the Supreme Court has said. This involves another hassle of making a police statement.

Bottom line, Lepep didn't make good on its electoral promise. Where's that Collen/Bhadain debate on R+?

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Just talked to a service rep of the MNIS at 468-1594. She was absolutely perfect: courteous and professional. She had mindful answers to all of my questions. She was so good that I told her if there were prizes for best service she would have won it. The total opposite of customer service at Canal+.

Can't help think about all these great experiences of customer service delivered by public sector employees. There's been lousy ones too but not as many as the good ones.

We've been known all over the world for our legendary hospitality. It's in our DNA. But bad policies have not allowed us to leverage this and other strengths.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Bizlall has legitimate questions about the biometric id card including if the state is not keeping the fingerprints how is it going to use the cards to identify someone on that basis?

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Did you people read what Blackburn wrote in the Forum section a couple of days ago about an ID officer saying they still have a copy of the fingerprints?

akagugo said...

Oh, this? Well, Absurdus Delirium prevails, as usual.
See, I was brought up to know that it is only when you are under some serious, arrestable suspicions that you have to provide fingerprints. And we all know that we are innocent until proven guilty, but here, it's about imposing a shadow of doubt (potentially guilty) unto all, before being convicted.
Some can say that you have to submit biometric data to acquire some visas abroad, but that's a foreign condition that you make an informed decision about.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Me wi. Ena kitfwa zis 500 dimunn ki ti bizin pran zot lanprint. Telman pa refkesi finn pran preske 1 milyon an plis.

Parey kuma sa diskisyon arsiv MGI nu ti gayne enn fwa la: bizin gard li prive ek less bann dimunn ki anvi konn zot rasinn al fer sa dekuvert interesan la.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Ler u get sa kantite dimunn ki pankor fer zot kart la eski bann sif ki minister ti dir ti fini fer zot kart rezonab?