PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte is ready to sign into
law the proposed national identification system once it reaches his desk,
Malacañang said Friday (May 25).
The Senate and House of
Representatives have already come up with a single version of the bill, which
will be ratified by both chambers before sending it to Duterte for his
signature.
“This landmark bill is
part of the legislative priority agenda of the Duterte administration to
improve the delivery of government services; thus, once ratified, the President
will sign this into law,” presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said.
Details of the
harmonized version have yet to be released to the public although Senator
Panfilo Lacson said the bicameral conference committee-backed version does not
differ much from the one approved by the Senate.
The Senate approved-bill
seeks to harmonize, integrate, and interconnect the countless and redundant
government IDs by establishing a single national identification system to be
known as the Philippine Identification System or PhilSys.
The proposed ID will
contain full name, facial image, date of birth, address, and fingerprints of
the individual.
Under the proposed
measure, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is mandated to act as the
PhilSys Registry, a repository and custodian of all data including the PSN,
registered records, and information of all persons registered in the PhilSys.
Lawmakers belonging to
the Makabayan bloc have raised concerns against the measure, saying the data
may be used against opponents of the government and to deprive others who
do not have it of basic social services. They urged the public to reject the
bill. (Virgil Lopez, GMA News / Google News PH)
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