Tag: "ID cards"
Vietnam bans social media from ID photo requests, eavesdropping from 2026
Vietnam News 15:12 29/12/2025Social media and online communication platforms in Vietnam will be prohibited from requesting users’ ID photos or secretly recording calls and messages, starting January 1, 2026, under the newly passed Law on Personal Data Protection, aimed at strengthening digital privacy and user rights.
Vietnam works to integrate welfare benefits info into citizens’ personal identification accounts
Vietnam News 13:27 31/05/2022The plan aims to enable people to receive state support through their personal identification accounts
Ho Chi Minh City launches mobile service booths to encourage chip-based ID adoption
Vietnam News 13:16 20/03/2021Each travelling service booth is expected to process at least 300 documents per day
Vietnam activates national population database, citizen ID card management systems
Vietnam News 16:15 27/02/2021The two systems will serve as comprehensive data hubs that store information with legal value of Vietnamese citizens
Vietnam’s PM approves nationwide roll-out of chip-based ID cards
Vietnam News 15:00 05/09/2020This national ID card project will run synchronously with the national population database project
Saigon ‘beggar’ found with 12 ID cards
Vietnam News 15:45 18/04/2020He makes some $22 per day from begging
