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Myanmar Human Rights Analysis of Biometric Digital ID Systems December 2020 Centre for Law and Democracy info@law-democracy.org +1 902 431-3688 www.law-democracy.org

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Myanmar: Human Rights Analysis of Biometric Digital ID Systems

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Digital Rights
Digital Surveillance

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Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD)
Fojo Media Institute
International Media Support (IMS)

Date Published: Dec 1, 2020

Abstract: This paper evaluates human rights issues that are relevant for a biometrics-based digital ID system that Myanmar might adopt. Digital ID systems are systems which assign individuals a single “digital ID” which is used to authenticate an individual’s identity and generally stored in a central database. They range from so-called soft digital IDs, such as a password used to access a social media account, to more secure sorts of IDs, which are often based on immutable and unique biometric data such as fingerprints or iris scans. While these more secure biometric digital IDs do provide important benefits, such as the inability to crack into them, unlike digital passwords, they also raise a number of complex human rights issues. This is due to issues associated with having a central database of personal data, the potential for abuse of any large-scale data collection exercise and the fact that digital IDs are often used as a mandatory system for accessing certain social services.

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