Society Organizations Call to Withdraw the New Biometric ID Card

About thirty civil society organizations in Tunisia issued a unified statement expressing their opposition to adopting the new national biometric ID card, which is an ID card with an electronic microchip.

It was first submitted by the Ministry of Interior in 2016.

Organizations sounded the alarm about the new ID, fearing any prospects of cyber hacking as it lacks any legal and technical safeguards for the Tunisians private information and would undermine Tunisian citizens’ fundamental rights.

Therefore, members of these organizations demanded the Tunisian authorities’ amendments on the draft that would entail protection for Tunisian personal information.