National unified management plan for biometric data emerges in China

 

Face recognition, fingerprint recognition, iris recognition, vein recognition ... Various biometric authentication systems are used in our daily lives, and a lot of personal information is collected for that purpose. 

Recently, in China,
" We recommend the prompt establishment of a national'databank'. Prioritize the collection of unique and non-reproducible data such as personal biological characteristics, medical health data, etc., and apply the data according to demand, strictly. We guarantee that the data can be opened to individuals for retrieval . " "Southern City Bulletin" reported.

To briefly explain the Chinese People's Political Cooperation, it is positioned as an organization for exchanging opinions on the administration under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party, and at the time of its establishment, it is a united front organization by the parties that supported the Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War. was.
 

Writing this way makes it feel like it exists formally, but recently, the presence of business and industry representatives is strong, and the founder of Xiaomi, Lei Jun, is also a member of the committee.
 

Proposals are made at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Party, the policy is settled at the Chinese Communist Party, and it becomes a law at the National Congress of the People's People of China or the State Council, or it is implemented as a policy.
 

Born in a military family for three generations, Dankenbong graduated from the Chinese People's Liberation Army Information Engineering Institute, has a master's degree from the National University of Singapore, a doctoral degree from the Department of Finance at the National University of Singapore, and a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) from Nice University, France. A shiny resume called Gaku).
 

It is an authority on "personal authentication" in China, specializing in information security and developing personal authentication systems for Chinese financial institutions, telecommunications companies, government agencies, etc. By the way, I'm not a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
 

I feel that China's national system, which allows this kind of talent to act as a kind of civilian representative, is more open than Japan, which is a democratic nation, but it is probably because of it.

Data technology innovation and the speed of generational change are clearly accelerating, and while data has become a key production factor for infrastructure strategic resources, new challenges for data management and data security have emerged.
 

Although China's data security legislation is gradually being developed, the construction of an infrastructural data security system in a specific area is still insufficient, for example, management of biometric data and medical health data ," said Dankenfeng. It is especially clear in management . "
 

In addition, personal biometric data (face, fingerprint, DNA, etc.) is unique and irreversible, and is used for personal identification and authentication. Once stolen, it cannot be recovered or changed , so personal privacy. It is said to pose an extremely large and irreversible risk to protection.

People's personal information also affects national securityIn addition, in the proposal, "If you collect a large amount of medical charts and health information for each individual, you can analyze the labor force and economy of the country and the development of related industries. It will cause immense harm to safety and industrial and economic development. "
 

According to the story, the management model of biometric data can be divided into three internationally.

One is clear unified management by the state, and representative countries include Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and India. Next, with the goal of mutual identification between nations, biometric data is added to digital personal information to create a database in each country or multiple countries. The third is ambiguous management. Although there is no clear data management legislation at the national level, in practice it limits the collection and accumulation by companies, typically the EU and the United States.
 

Then, which is China? According to the story, "new biometric data is mainly controlled by companies at this stage", and if these data are not centrally managed, the value of data elements will be limited. As a result, it becomes difficult to manage and supervise the use of data, and it is difficult to guarantee the security of data because the situation where data is collected and used for overflow and the monopoly of data coexist. As a result, it becomes difficult to enforce laws and regulations on data safety, and it is pointed out that the phenomenon of vertically divided management and poor management will occur frequently.

Needs unified management and technological development by the state The proposal for discussion on this is to stipulate the relevant laws and regulations in detail, clarify the attribution of data rights, improve the operability of implementing data safety laws and regulations, and make the already collected biometric data into public products as "important data". It is managed as and those that reach a certain quantity should be regarded as core data.
 

At the same time, we recommend the prompt establishment of the national "Databank". We should prioritize the collection of unique and non-reproducible data such as personal biological characteristics and medical health data, apply the data according to demand, rigorously audit it, and guarantee that the data can be opened to individuals for retrieval. Says.
 

The talk should also promote the development of safety technology, consolidate the safety industry infrastructure, enhance data management capabilities and data management supervision levels, put in place data identity infrastructure measures, and innovate on personal authentication and management in the data space. We are proposing that we must solve technical problems. 

summary

Opinions such as "Once stolen biometric information cannot be changed, so it can't be helped" and "National security issues" are "well, right", but China has shut out US IT companies "I see. I was impressed with that. "
 

Japan, where smartphone makers that are sufficient for their own SNS and international brands have not grown up, may be at a considerable disadvantage in information warfare.
 

This is a digression, but I think that there are many people who think, "Because I ask you to share information properly between government offices and manage us." It's too much work.