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

[GreatPumpkin]

They rather triple down than take ownership of a mistake

 

[Sauron]

Suka² change Jiu change

 

[Philipkee]

With IC no and name, u can go print out details of home address, know your age, etc. Can also check your car details. Etc. With IC number, Can go check who is your wife at ROM, name and details. Can borrow $ from loanshark too.

Kidnapping scam will go up. Elderly might be wiser but now kidnapped know full name nric and address. Then how?

NEA officer come to your house with a fake photo id bearing a legit name and nric of a real NEA officer. He knows your name, address and nric and produces a letter bearing all the correct details and demand to be let in. You look at his warrant card. It’s fake but you don’t know it’s fake but you see the name and ic number of officer and call NEA to verify and they say officer is legit. Then how?

 

[galmongie]

Really anyhow siaz. Everyone in a rush to fly off for their Dec holidays?

 

[sanukboy]

Steady lah PAP!
This is the power of the fourth generation leaders!

 

[optimus_prime888]

The idea is to make NRIC an useless data point for scammers.

Your masked NRIC is not safe, contrary to what many assumes.

Lucky draw winners may be announced with their name and masked NRIC. By obtaining the person's birth year, one can quite easily reverse engineer the full NRIC thanks to the checksum.

Yes, this is true. But shouldnt the G consider public opinion and educate the public prior to this hooha? This is yet another case of complete disregard of the common folks and why there should be more opposition in the parliament.

 

[Philipkee]

Really anyhow siaz. Everyone in a rush to fly off for their Dec holidays?

Nah. Everyone cannot come back cos all locked out of bank accounts liao

 

[woshihock]

why they allow people to search our NIRC leh?

please samurai

 

[twosix]

The govt better give good explanations else it will be another ezlink saga.

 

[prusswan.net]

The govt better give good explanations else it will be another ezlink saga.

They give liao, decriminalise themselves first. But industry good luck

 

[cute_togepi]

Our NRIC actually can tell a lot of things.
For example S9812345X

For babies born 1968 and after, last 5 digits 00000-5XXXX, it is ascending order based on date of registration for babies born in Singapore. So you can guess which month of the year a person is born based on birth stats of that particular year.

For 3rd digit starting with 7, these are all PRs and new citizens.

For 3rd digit starting with 9, this is rare and therefore not really known what is it actually for, could be Singaporean citizens born overseas to Singaporean parents who may have missed the normal deadline for registration.

For babies born 1967 and before S0xxxxxA and S1xxxxxxA, it is more random as it is based on when the person turn up for registration. But S2xxxxxxA are PRs and new citizens born 1967 and before.

Check digit generator easy to find online also.

So even just with the NRIC number itself you can already guess a person's age, birth month and whether they are native or naturalised.

 

[Wstc333]

ridiculous. bunch of simpletons.

 

[skylink67]

Flip prata policy. That's why 4G cannot make it.

 

[SuperGreenHorn]

Then what? Next they announce disband of PDPC?

 

[English Teacher]

Just because it becomes unmasked (again), please use common sense to protect it as it is still an important piece of information used to verify your identity to organisations

 

[kuti-kuti]

i really lost confidence in this gov.
luckily this thing surface before ge.

 

[Kiwi8]

Really is gahmen can arson but peasants can't even light their lanterns.

 

[kuti-kuti]

Just because it becomes unmasked (again), please use common sense to protect it as it is still an important piece of information used to verify your identity to organisations

yah lor, no use to mask then why in 1st place implement? implemented at least got a layer of privacy, can totally go nude becoz people can guess wat is underneath your pants.... so no need wear pants lor...

 

[archie7]

what’s your nric Eugene?

you can contact him here... or maybe ask him update nric on the webpage?

https://law.smu.edu.sg/faculty/profile/1706/eugene-tan-kheng-boon

 

[iluvchickenwing]

so jialat... ex empress Ho havn't said anything yet?