Extracts from Scottish Parliament debate on Programme for Government 2018-19 - Sep 5
Thursday, 6 September 2018 08:11
Stewart Stevenson (Banffshire and Buchan Coast) (SNP):...I welcome
the proposed biometrics bill. I encourage the Government to pay
close attention to what has happened in India with the
Aadhaar system. That is an identity card system that has issued
cards to 1.22 billion cardholders since 2009. An important point
about it is that around 50 per cent of the cardholders are
functionally illiterate. Therefore, it is an easy-access system and
it has many lessons for what we might want to...Request free trial
(Banffshire and Buchan
Coast) (SNP):...I welcome the proposed
biometrics bill. I encourage the Government to pay close attention
to what has happened in India with the Aadhaar system. That is an
identity card system that has issued cards to 1.22 billion
cardholders since 2009. An important point about it is that around
50 per cent of the cardholders are functionally illiterate.
Therefore, it is an easy-access system and it has many lessons for
what we might want to do on biometrics. The Aadhaar card is based
on retinal scans...
The Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure
and Connectivity (Michael
Matheson):... referred to the biometrics
bill. I cannot say that I know much about the Indian Government’s identity card system,
which he mentioned, but the biometrics bill is about modernising
our legislative structure to deal with the ever-emerging new ways
in which biometric data is progressing and making sure that we
futureproof our approach to how that is managed in the
future...
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