Contract on new ID cards expected shortly

CAgius

Oct 19th 2010, 17:28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l39XsMcyvgA

Chris Fenech

Oct 19th 2010, 12:33

Please, people. Let us think seriously about this issue. Do we really think it is a good idea that the government will own information about our own bodies?

Our fingerprint information will be digitalised and it is very easy to hack into computers and retrieve this information. Read this article and do some more research:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/30/german_interior_minister_fingerprint_appropriated/


Technological crimes are on the rise and we are just making ourselves more vulnerable.

R.Borg

Oct 19th 2010, 10:04

Prosit and thank you!
Meta jigu jkunu gew!
Qattusa ghaggelija frieh ghomja taghmel!
Rome was not built in a day.

David Ellul

Oct 19th 2010, 10:01

No

l fenech

Oct 19th 2010, 09:31

Dawk li hallewna spiccaw izghar mill-li kienu.

simon stafrace

Oct 19th 2010, 06:36

What my finger prints what wright does the system have to impose me to give out my finger prints??????

Ramon Casha

Oct 19th 2010, 05:46

@Neville Calleja: Hackers HAVE broken into the government's servers and stolen usernames and passwords, including those of MPs. As for whether fingerprints could be used for nefarious purposes, check out this article:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/hackers-publish/

Besides, that's not all that the ID cards were supposed to contain. According to earlier reports, they will also have our medical history and would in future be extended to contain banking information. We use our ID cards all the time - for banking transactions, insurance claims, even to start renting videos from a video store. I'm not comfortable having my medical history on a card that has to be used on so many occasions. Can I opt out of that? Is there a way for me to verify all the information that will be carried on my card?

Doreen Sultana

Oct 19th 2010, 02:40

A lot of abuse will take place if this happens. Electrical data can be stolen any time. Besides why does vital information have to be stored on our identity card?

Andrew Cilia

Oct 19th 2010, 00:18

@Neville: "apply these fingerprints in some mysterious way on a crime scene"

Just go to Youtube and look at ccc-fake-fingerprint. All you need to fake a fingerprint is some Loctite, a digital camera, glue and a laser printer to fake someones fingerprint!

Andrew Cilia

Oct 19th 2010, 00:14

Big Brother - ARE we coming?

It all depends how the cards will be implemented.

- will the cards support fingerprint match on card so that the fingerprints do NOT exist anywhere in ANY database?

- can we opt out of the fingerprint saved on the card as our fellow citizen can do in other EU countries?

- what information will be saved on the card?

- will there be a public technical discussion about the features like in other countries? In Belgium everybody can see the specs online and can even purchase Alice Specimen cards to play with.

- who will develop the software? Will it be given abroad as usual or will it be done locally? I read a couple of times here in the newspaper that there is a company in Malta specialized in e-ID Software

- was there a proper tendering process? Hungary lost twice the approved EU funds for their health cards due to mistakes in the tendering process.

- will it become a second power station?

lgalea

Oct 18th 2010, 22:53

The eu orders monitoring of all means of communications, keeping of all data for a number of years, have established the European Public Prosecutor, its own police force Europol and a host of other agencies to keep member countries citizens under control, but we have already seen the many demonstrations against its orders which shall become the order of the day until the eu and its petty dictators are destroyed God willing.

JOSEPH ZAMMIT

Oct 18th 2010, 22:40

I believe that Stephen Koludrovic is right; read George Orwell's book 1984---we won't have any privacy and freedom of movement without being watched.

George Gauci

Oct 18th 2010, 21:49

May I suggest that the new ID Cards double as KARTA ANZJAN by adding different colour bands at one end or corner of the Cards. For those aged say 58 or 59 the colour could be different from that of those already over 60. It would save money.
G. Gauci, Victoria.

MBorg

Oct 18th 2010, 21:11

@ Neville Calleja

Are you living in our world ? Of course I am against having my fingerprint on any ID card. You would also be aginst it ,if you were abreast wiht what is going on in our world.

Any airport is going to have access to your fingerprint. Any shop, bank and numerous other places where you are asked to identify yourself , you are ging to hand in not only your fingerprint but also " more information " about yourself. Are you happy with this ? I am not.

What other information is going to be stored on this chip ? In the UK the British were against any form of ID cards and we are going to have all this information on our ID cards . Why ? Do we have to be the first ? We should be given more information and not just an announcement of the issue date.

Joseph Bartolo

Oct 18th 2010, 20:16

The EU is nothing but a like the former soviet block. Control of its people and making it one nation, under one law which is the Lisbon Treaty. The governents of each nation have to give the right for its people, to live as sovriegn nations in their own right. I say whole heartedly POWER to the PEOPLE of every nation, safeguarding ones rights, over ones obligations. The fat cats of the EU, want to form the NEW WORKD ORDER, so everyone will be at their selfish and heartless mercy. Please dear one look online about the NEW WORLD ORDER, what it truly means and decide for yourself, your family and most of all for our nation and the world as a whole.

Stephen Koludrovic

Oct 18th 2010, 20:09

Slowly, but surely we are entering into George Orwell,s world with big brother watching every move we do.

clayton borg

Oct 18th 2010, 20:07

Anthony Mizzi...... The Eu is not our daddy, it is now our master!

adrian galea

Oct 18th 2010, 19:58

I think more information about what is proposed is now overdue, as well as a debate about it. It is very important to know what information is going to be stored on such cards. I am based in the Uk and over recent years there was a furore over proposed ID cards here. While not necessarily needing to become paranoid about having an ID card, and not in general against it, Maltese citizens deserve to know more.

Adrian Wirth

Oct 18th 2010, 19:52

Not only ought there to be openess and transparency about what specific biodata is contained on the proposed i.d. cards but also whether that data is linked and openly exchanged between i.d. cards and biometric passports. More importantly Parliament ought to be told whether any additional non conventional capabilities are provided for. For example it is fairly widely known that technologically a GPS based chip is available which can be embedded in such as an i.d card enabling the location of the card carrier to be identifiable at all times. A provider such as De La Rue would have access to that technology. One would have thought Parliament would wish to have assurances that capabilities such as this are not contemplated.

L.Bugeja

Oct 18th 2010, 19:45

Issa hey,Ha nibdew nivvutaw bl id card mela ukoll!! x navvanzaw e :)

N. Bonello

Oct 18th 2010, 19:42

I doubt if there is a country in the world (1st to 3rd) that has approved an ID Card as the one proposed - Only in Malta can government do whatever it wants and everyone is hush. Were we consulted ? The reason we are getting EU funding is that we dare do what others want to do.

G. Mifsud.

Oct 18th 2010, 19:34

But...What will happen if I choose to say NO to Big Brother?

MSciberras

Oct 18th 2010, 19:24

My old ID card is being rejected at various airports because their scanners do not recognise it. The most recent airport where I had to use my passport because the ID was rejected was Schipol in Holland. After the ID card......please, please renew the passports. The quality of both is an embarassment

Anthony Mizzi

Oct 18th 2010, 19:14

How did we manage in the past to produce identity cards without having resort to EU funding? HomeNewsSportsBlogsWhat's onFood & travelVideoArchivesFollow us on: Facebook Twitter Advertising rates NewspapersNationalBusinessWorldDataInterview.NATIONAL Thursday, September 16, 2010 Edward Scicluna calls for Commission clarification on ID cards funding Labour MEP Edward Scicluna Labour MEP Prof Edward Scicluna today called on the European Commission to clarify the question of whether the Maltese government had called for EU funding to pay for a new ID card system. "It is of grave concern that the majority of ID cards in Malta are expired, with their viability dependent on the Government issuing a Legal Notice to re-validate them for use in the Maltese islands only. As an EU Member State the situation is also an embarrassment to our island." Things seemd to started moving after Prof. Edward Scicluna made a parliamentary question to the European Commission, regarding EU funding to pay for the replacement of ID cards It seems one has to go to Bid Daddy the E.U> to get things moving around here!

M Mealclaf

Oct 18th 2010, 19:08

The article above says more information about the holder of the new ID card will be stored on the Cards. What information ?

MBorg

Oct 18th 2010, 19:05

What information is going to be stored on the ID card chip ? What does " more information on their owners " mean ? Can we opt out from giving our fingerprints ? We have every right to know the full details.