Privacy enhancing national identification card system

Abstract

This paper argues that the privacy concerns that are associated with national identification systems is because of the failure of various countries to implement national identification systems with a strong privacy theory backing the implementation. This work is therefore aimed at addressing the privacy concerns of those countries debating national identification system adoption. Furthermore, the project sought to design and develop a privacy enhancing national identification system that is suitable for implementation at minimal cost per capita to any country. Our proposed privacy enhancing national identification card system was designed and developed based on the control and limitation theory of privacy to achieve the objectives of restricting unauthorized access to information on the identification card, and giving the cardholder control over who has access to information on the identification card.