Or e-Passport as the main ID
The subtle work of cyber-lobbyists to introduce electronic cards of a single international standard in Russia and abandon traditional paper documents continues. This week, State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party Sergei Ivanov introduced to parliament a bill "On basic identity documents", which implies the introduction of "a new type of main identity document" - actually an identity card on a plastic medium, which all citizens of the Russian Federation with 14- years old. At the same time, it is also proposed to preserve the paper passport, updating the appearance of its form, but all this is a bad disguise for the transition to fully electronic interaction between the state and the citizen, in which the latter is perceived by the system exclusively as a bio-object with a personal code.
Actually, it is rather strange that such important, almost epoch-making changes in the personal registration of citizens by the state, which is planned to be made electronic, are carried out through the bill of an ordinary deputy, not even from the "party in power." Recall that the transition to electronic passports has been repeatedly announced by the leadership of the Ministry of Digital Industry, Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov and directly Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Anyway. How does Mr. Ivanov explain the need for "innovation"? In an explanatory note, he notes that "the current legislation governing legal relations in the field of identity documents is fragmented and confused", it says that there are a lot of identity documents, and therefore everything urgently needs to be systematized. And systematize for the sake ofthat "to create the necessary conditions to ensure the constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation."
This is not news at all - the authors of the draft law on "digital profile", a detailed analysis of which Katyusha cited earlier, also surprisingly explains the corral of the people into the digital stall by ensuring their constitutional rights and freedoms. And they do it through bills that affect the basic constitutional rights of the population. Such is the paradox. Here and the deputy Ivanov, referring to the fact that today in our legislation there are more than 20 different documents that allow you to establish the identity of a citizen, suggests introducing another one - an electronic ID on a plastic card with a chip.
The key in the draft law is Article 10 "Identity card of a citizen of the Russian Federation". It is noteworthy that in the next, 11th article, another basic similar document is described - a paper passport, which does not seem to disappear anywhere. Let's turn to the text of the document:
"An identity card of a citizen of the Russian Federation (issued in the form of a document on a plastic carrier) is a document proving the identity of a citizen of the Russian Federation and confirming the citizenship of the Russian Federation" - these functions of an electronic identity completely duplicate the functions of a passport.
“Identity cards are issued to citizens of the Russian Federation from the age of fourteen. Citizens of the Russian Federation permanently residing in the territory of the Russian Federation are required to have an identity card”- a passport is also issued from the age of 14 and must also be obtained without fail. At the same time, it is interesting that for the absence of a passport in the draft law, the responsibility of a citizen before the law is directly indicated, in the case of an electronic certificate there is no such clarification - although the mandatory procedure for obtaining is more than enough.
“The identity card of a citizen of the Russian Federation is issued for a period of ten years. The form of the identity card of a citizen of the Russian Federation and the procedure for making marks are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation, - in parallel, citizens are offered to issue a paper passport indefinitely (there will only be a photo re-stuck - at 20 and 45 years old). The list of information about a citizen is identical - for a paper passport, that for an electronic identity card, while the document does not say anything about recording biometric data on the chip. However, it is not a fact that the Government will then simply not expand the list by its resolution.
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What else should be noted: an electronic card is indicated as the main method of verifying the identity of a Russian (it goes first number) in the list of basic documents proving the identity of a citizen of the Russian Federation - followed by a passport, an international passport, etc. In the explanatory note, it is also called "a new type of main document". At the same time, article 11 of the draft law on a paper passport says the following:
“A passport is the main document that certifies the identity of a citizen of the Russian Federation on the territory of the Russian Federation. All citizens of the Russian Federation who have reached the age of 14 and live in the territory of the Russian Federation are required to have a passport."
And here the question arises - is it possible that with such contradictory formulations after the introduction of another, parallel to the passport, identity card, Deputy Ivanov really wanted to save Russians from unnecessary bureaucracy and red tape? In fact, there are very few countries in the world where an electronic ID-card operates in tandem with a paper passport - these are already two mandatory documents that must be carefully monitored. It is much more likely that according to this scheme it is proposed to gradually advance the Overton window, to make the transition from paper to electronic identity - and the transition, as we see, is not at all voluntary.
"The practice of using an identity document issued on a plastic carrier is widespread both in the European Union and in the CIS countries, and has proven itself well," - this is a typical, very "valuable" argument with reference to Western practice is offered by Ivanov to justify this "innovation".
It is proposed to issue new identity cards in the Ivanov bill from January 1, 2021. Obviously, by that time, the authorities will have accumulated experience in transferring Muscovites to electronic passports - the corresponding Presidential Decree was not submitted so long ago by the Ministry of Digital Industry - it is planned to start implementing it as early as March 2020. was previously planned by the Government in the region of 2022-2024. - so that the cyber lobbyists, as we can see, work smoothly and efficiently.
The next step in their plans will be to decouple the identification and authentication of the population from any external material carriers - for this, a global biometric accounting and control system is being created within the framework of "smart cities", the issuance of loans and purchases using biometrics, and transport passes through it are actively promoted the same on preferential terms, etc. Obviously, many of our citizens began to forget where free cheese is …
So it remains for us once again to send citizens (and to literally poke the unlucky lobbyist officials) to a sample of a statement (appeal) to the President of Russia against the uncontested universal introduction in the country of an electronic passport drawn up by an expert of OD KPD, Ph. D. Anna Schwabauer. The draft Presidential Decree, developed by the Ministry of Digital Development and posted on the portal of the NPA on October 15, 2019, completes the destruction of the privacy of Russians, threatens national security, contradicts the Constitution, a number of federal laws and government policy documents (including the “Concept of Citizen Identity Card in the form of a plastic card with an electronic storage medium, as the main document proving the identity of a citizen of the Russian Federation on the territory of the Russian Federation and an action plan for its implementation”;Strategy for the development of the information society in the Russian Federation for 2017-2030), grossly violates the rights of believers, for whom numbered biometric personal identifiers are categorically unacceptable, in fact creating conditions for their genocide, belittles the dignity of the individual, ignores the official position of the Russian Orthodox Church and the State Legal Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
But the Government and the entire team of digital lobbyists continue to ignore the statements of the Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy and other parliamentarians, the position of Orthodox believers and the Russian Orthodox Church, and show all contempt for the current legislation and the Constitution. According to "Katyusha", the public figures do not intend to calmly observe the secret of digital lawlessness and are preparing to oppose their plans in every possible way.