Paris – Should we once to merge the vital card with the identity card? During his interview on TF1 on Tuesday evening, the president has shown himself to be more clear: “If the Constitution allows, yes. Early which makes it possible to simplify, (that’s) yes ”.
Except that the administration is not favorable French, according to an inspection report published Politico. Inspectors consider it the costly, complex and effective operation.
This idea of merger was issued and sustains for the first time in May 2023 by Gabriel Attal, Minister of Public Accounts. The stated objective was then to combat social fraud.
The time, the minister was based on one of the inspections of social social and finance inspections, which buried the creation of a biometric vital card, but proposed a plan B: the merger of vital and identity cards.
Immediately said, immediately done: Gabriel Attal rushed into the breach and launched a prefiguration mission. His conclusions were not princemps 2024, and Jamaies or even reproduced by summer, who had made it a “priority” of son Governation a liver who became Prime Minister.
A merger at 80 million euros
In the report, the inspectors believe that a merger threatens the good derly of a large site: the replacement of identity cards with new electronic cards. The operation would indeed require recalling the millions of electronic cards of the jéchapés of DESSURE 2021, and will only be more agreed by civil status and prefectures.
In the best of cases, the merger would be on five years and coicked at least 80 million euros – not to mention the “indirect cocoûtes”. An amount too high compared to the “residual character” of the vital card fraud, you the cost is estimated by the mission at 3.4 million euros per year.
Concretely, merge the two cards would consist in registering a social security number in the chip of an identity card, and therefore in defining the vital card. Except that not all the unit dissensors have an identity card – since it is not compulsory.
The not packed cnil
In addition, the idea does not please the CNIL at all, guaranteeing the protection of personal data. Pour that it authorizes UNLE such fusion, it will therefore be necessary to raise to each citizen the possibility of opposing it. The electronic chip of the identity card in two compartments is also appropriate, so that only the services of the health-social sphere can access the security numbers.
There is an alternative to the track, pushed by the Mistre of the interior Bruno Retailbeau: Integr a numbered version of the vital card in the France Identity mobile application. But health insurance is also the opposite, on the grounds that not all French people have a smartphone, and that all social insured are not French and therefore eligible on the identity card.
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