On the afternoon of February 6, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Public Security organized a seminar on evaluating scientific and technological solutions for DNA, voice, and iris biometrics to serve the implementation of the new Law on Identification, effective from July 2, 1.
At the seminar, Deputy Minister of Public Security Nguyen Duy Ngoc said that the Law on Identification has been approved by the National Assembly and will take effect from July 1, 7, including new regulations related to additional information. DNA, iris, voice biometrics into the identification database.
Deputy Minister Nguyen Duy Ngoc affirmed that the implementation of technological utilities for people has been carried out synchronously and consistently with applications, biometric authentication, and chip utilities on identification cards. , about electronic identification. This has succeeded in reducing and shortening administrative procedures and making it people-friendly.
The leader of the Ministry of Public Security also cited that currently in the world, many countries have built national databases on DNA, iris, and voice to serve population management and prevent crime and natural disasters. disaster, searching for the victim's whereabouts. In Vietnam, there has been a gradual approach, but there are still many difficulties in terms of legality and information technology infrastructure.
Deputy Minister Nguyen Duy Ngoc said that when making regulations to apply biometrics, there are many different opinions. However, the Identification Law has been passed and now needs to be discussed on how to implement it effectively. In the process of developing regulations, the Police Department of Administrative Management of Social Order is assigned to implement them and will continue to ask for advice and listen to comments.
At the conference, scientists, managers, and experts focused on discussing and clarifying the following contents: priority subjects for implementation (Identity Law affirms that people can voluntarily), prevention groups Are criminals required to apply biometrics? What will the application provide? How are technology solutions deployed? What is the sampling plan? (take blood, saliva samples...); storage time? Investment solutions?…
Sharing his views at the conference, Professor Ho Tu Bao (Institute for Advanced Research in Mathematics) said that biometrics is a part of human numbers, a field of scientific research and data exploitation to confirm get identities. During the implementation process, Professor Bao noted the need to measure each individual sample and identify it. According to him, DNA has many advantages such as high accuracy and cannot be faked, but has the disadvantage of high cost. Meanwhile, voice biometrics is low cost, easy to use and simpler to apply, but has the disadvantage that it can be spoofed and the language environment can be affected. Along with that, biometrics through the iris has an average cost but requires complex equipment and higher costs.
Mr. Nong Van Hai (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) said that choosing a biometric solution also needs to be chosen to suit cost, convenience and security. Also according to Mr. Hai, from now until the Identification Law takes effect, there needs to be a project to clearly assign resources and councils related to ethical issues when taking samples. Meanwhile, in terms of investment resources to implement solutions, Mr. Hai proposed that they can be taken from the state budget, socialization resources and international support (if any).
“This is long-term work, affecting the whole society, related to Vietnam's national science and technology position. I think we need to consult more countries around the world to see how they do it," Mr. Hai said.
Continuing to offer opinions and solutions to apply biometrics to the identification database, Mr. Nguyen Duc Cong (Ho Chi Minh City Thong Nhat Hospital) said that applying DNA to identification is a solution. not everything, and DNA data as understood by Mr. Cong is mainly in crime prevention. Therefore, the implementation process needs to be like how to collect genes for people with different constitutions, because each person with a different constitution will give different results, possibly causing this or that disease. Mr. Cong supports the collection of genes through blood sampling. In the process of sharing opinions, Mr. Cong expressed some concerns that this is a "solution" that costs money, so more research is needed.
Colonel Vu Van Tan, Deputy Director of the Police for Administrative Management of Social Order, said that from July 1, 7, when the Law on Identification takes effect, in theory, if people request it, they will DNA integrated into new identity. According to Mr. Tan, through research from countries around the world such as the US, UK, and China, they all apply DNA in identification and DNA data.
Also according to Mr. Tan, around the world, biometric data sharing (European Treaty) is also allowed on a voluntary basis and serves search and crime work. In the US, the Identification Act also affirms the above content. In Vietnam, the recent Identity Law also included DNA in the law.
Next, more broadly, Europe also allows 20 gene addresses in the data; In Vietnam, 30 genetic addresses are being built into identity cards.
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