Govt intends to stop masking NRIC numbers, says there is not 'much value in doing so'

[mummynew]

民意似乎不重要。

I can use this case to share with my kids again on why I have never voted PAP.

The sheer arrogance.

 

[CHINAUSA]

God is them, devil also them. let you become "gong gong" is their strategy

cannot convinced you, confused YOU lor

 

[s-ghost]

She already on thin ice. This round pretty confident will go

no she won't

she still have a job as a minister because the opposition there is too weak, and it will continue to be weak

 

[couch.potato]

They will just transfer Jo to another sure win team next time… if they deem her current one as a risk…

she’s the one who hold fan for LHL in public right? lol…

 

[Medicated Oil]

Same as simplygo, initial idea is no show card balance at entry so as to speed up the clearance budden backfire n nw passengers hav to check card balance at a separate place. Saves their money collection time but increases our time wasted.

Their ultimate aim for any changes is to have less work and expenses at their end.
Same for the point system award for commuters who go early to work.
Making it troublesome on the user end all the time.

 

[footi3]

why this gahment cannot just admit mistakes one

 

[mryang]

KYC is needed at client acceptance stage during which you will not be authorised to access their internal records.
Also, it's not only applicable to auditors but to other service providers as well.

Usually is company give approves... Don't now got changed or not.

 

[Evil_Boss]

Best bet they will blame the software vendor for this.

Then blame the project manager and system owner for not spotting the mistake.

As usual, minister and gov gets away scot free. No need apology.

Will khaw peh khaw bu remind his former partymate on harakiri? If pappies no double standards, his harakiri statement should not just apply to opposition parties.

he relaxing in his GCB saturday morning go lim kopi... what about u?

The govt is high handed as usual that I am really so sick of such treating me like an idiot kind of feelings.

They don't really care what some (or majority) citizens feel / want and would launch whatever they thought is 'good' for us.

Given that if masked / unmasked IC numbers served the same purpose (of differentiation in case of same name) but citizens feel safer with masked, then why must go against these citizens' preference?

Sick of that 'powerless' feeling again (so long didn't experience this as I thought I have been 'jaded' after so long).

I wonder a petition will help to reverse their coming efforts to 're-educate' us that IC number is nothing but just a number? (in my mind, unlikely will help coz of the usual outcome of 你说你的，我做我的。)

Such a major change, they didn't foresee public uproar, didn't do public consultation?

I hate the car that they built within their door, another classic case of 闭门造车。

*even my two adult kids are awed / jaw-dropped by this (in case some thinking that boomers like me are 'resistant to changes').

 

[s-ghost]

From Sept 1, 2019, collecting NRIC numbers and making copies of identity cards will be illegal in Singapore​

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/in...bers-and-making-copies-identity-cards-will-be
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...the-identity-card-will-be-illegal-from-sept-1 (article deleted?)

collecting is wrong, that's the keyword

 

[galmongie]

Usually is company give approves... Don't now got changed or not.

What approval? If they are not your client yet, you won't be able to access their internal records.

 

[oldchanggold]

Seriously what a joke, they dare to say NRIC no longer unique identifier. Then use what ? I've never seen a country which says their national ID can be public information

Other countries like UK don’t even have NRIC concept due to data privacy issue..

 

[qhong61]

So now everyone will know our age?

 

[applecrisp]

Relax guys.

U just need to know 1 thing.

Sinkies are always wrong.

thank you.

 

[Tedicious]

From CNA:

"As a unique identifier, the NRIC number is assumed to be known, just as our real names are known," said the ministry.

Why should NRIC assumed to be known? So next time can news ctr include a NRIC of a sinkie criminal in the news as well?

"There should therefore not be any sensitivity in having one’s full NRIC number made public, in the same way that we routinely share and reveal our full names to others."

Certainly we introduce ourselves to others by our name not NRIC number right? If there should not be any sentivitity in sharing NRIC number in public why is there introduction to mask our NRIC number? If now no need, I would expect all govt agencies website to share all civil servant NRIC number of each ministry website, after all govt should set the example for it's citizen. If cannot be done, den don't expect us to shallow this new ****

 

[Reborn]

tiagong from leddit got someone who is employee his entire life, still got his name and ic appear

 

[BohemianSG]

going forward, pls ask the ministers to sign off with their NRIC numbers on their facebook posts

Yes, i expect next GE all the PAP candidates posters all got their NRIC.

 

[Jirachi]

Yeah its possible to reverse, its not a hash since last 4 characters are checksum of the first 4 digits

Wait, so you are saying that the first 4 digits are not used for checksum?

 

[Reborn]

when the search is still up I've tried searching names of friends and corlick I know...it is kind of random, some appears while others dont. my own name doesnt appear luckily...

showed my corlick I got hold of his nric he got shocked and immediately called me how I get it. lol

omg. And they didn't reg business before?

Maybe the database got some sort of error where some who never registered for any business, still erroneously got included?

 

[BohemianSG]

From CNA:

"As a unique identifier, the NRIC number is assumed to be known, just as our real names are known," said the ministry.

Why should NRIC assumed to be known? So next time can news ctr include a NRIC of a sinkie criminal in the news as well?

"There should therefore not be any sensitivity in having one’s full NRIC number made public, in the same way that we routinely share and reveal our full names to others."

Certainly we introduce ourselves to others by our name not NRIC number right? If there should not be any sentivitity in sharing NRIC number in public why is there introduction to mask our NRIC number? If now no need, I would expect all govt agencies website to share all civil servant NRIC number of each ministry website, after all govt should set the example for it's citizen. If cannot be done, den don't expect us to shallow this new ****

Then the spokesperson should tell his name and nric instead of signing off as annoymous spokesperson. Dun assume we know his NRIC and name.

 

[IamtheLurk]

Next time must poh NRIC rank and name.