The Jamaica Gleaner posted an article on March 11, 2021, about concerns over a data purge of the Jamaica NIDS database. Below are some key highlights:
- The Jamaican Bar Association has raised concern that there is no provision in the current National Identification and Registration Act (NIRA) for an individual’s data to be purged from the database if a cancellation is requested.
- Making a presentation on Wednesday before the joint select committee examining the proposed law, Carlene Larmond, a member of the Bar Association, pointed to other instances where purging of an individual’s data was prescribed.
- “It is our submission that in all cases of cancellation the individual’s data ought to be purged,” Larmond said. Turning to administrative issues.
- The only provision relating to purging in the bill, according to Larmond, was in a case where National Identification and Registration Act (NIRA) cancels, either for inaccuracy or if someone was ineligible for enrolment, placement in the National Identification System database
- Larmond questioned why a diplomat who was ineligible to enrol on NIDS was entitled to apply for, and receive information, stored in the national database.
- Committee Chairman Delroy Chuck said that the proposed legislation gave diplomats the opportunity, under Section 25, to check whether they were enrolled
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