The identity card, a document essential to the life of any French citizen, has undergone many reforms: computerization in the early 1980s, then tamper-proof card and then electronic card in 2005.
Dominique TORRES presented the new computerized identity card, valid from 1 January 1981: its advantage, the almost impossibility of falsifying it and its disadvantage, the risks for freedoms. Interview with Senator TYRO, Chairman of the Committee on Information Technology and Freedoms, on the role of this committee, on the lack of information groups to protect the freedom of individuals.
Report dedicated to the tamper-proof identity card soon in circulation. Update on its manufacture aimed at ending fraud and better identity control. Images of identity documents and machines alternate with interviews with Michel GUEDEL, Deputy Commercial Director of CIMSA, on the manufacturing process and Jacques FAUVET, President of the Data Protection and Civil Liberties Committee.
Very soon, the new French identity card will make it possible to collect and centralise the biometric data of all French citizens. It will contain two bullets containing personal information. The aim is to combat identity theft. Some are against the "filing of honest people". - Interview with Eric CIOTTI, MP UMP. It highlights the reliability of this new generation card. - All French biometric data will be kept in a centralized file accessible to the authorities. - Interview with Jean-Jacques URVOAS, MP PS. He denounces the systematic registration of the population, contrary to democratic practices.
Electronic ID card due in 2007. A smart card containing a photo allowing facial recognition and two fingerprints. The government’s idea is to fight documentary fraud. François GIQUEL, Vice-President of the CNIL expressed reservations. Several associations decided to fight this project, for them the introduction of biometrics is dangerous for freedoms as explained Alain WEBER, lawyer of the League of Human Rights.
Charles PASQUA, Minister of the Interior, has just made the computerised identity card mandatory. The contract signed this morning between Thomson and the Ministry of the Interior, generalizes this map for the whole country. Charles PASQUA explains how this renewal will be carried out. Alain GOMEZ, CEO of Thomson, explains that his company already has manufacturing contracts for such maps with other countries.
The new national identity card appears in the pilot department of Hauts de Seine. State of the art in computing, this new card is resolutely modern. "It’s about making life easier for French people," stresses Dominique Latournerie, Director of Civil Liberties and Legal Affairs. Richard CASTERA, Director of Communications, lists the different levels of control that can be carried out on this card in order to detect virtually all frauds.