Saudi Arabia
Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 13:38
Card Name:
National Identity Card
Date Issued:
2006
Issuing Agency:
Ministry of Interior
Voluntary or Mandatory:
Mandatory Biometric Technology on the Card:
Photo, fingerprint, demographics
Card Purpose:
Travel, digital signing
Corporate Involvement:
Lasercard, Gemalto
Additional Information:
Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective, Routledge (2008)
Edited by Colin J. Bennett and David Lyon
Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance, Polity (2009)
By David Lyon
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