What do people need to do to ensure the safety of their electronic identity accounts?

The exploitation and application of population database, electronic identification and authentication are of great significance for socio-economic development and national digital transformation, bringing many immediate and long-term benefits. for the process of building e-Government towards Digital Government.

Electronic identification and electronic authentication are services provided to serve the convenience of the people. Electronic identification and authentication bring many benefits such as: Citizens only have to provide and verify once with the same personal information, provide online authentication services, verify identities for customers. individuals, verify the identity of organizations, businesses…

In the process of transacting on the online environment, the safety and security of people’s information and personal data is always a constant concern.

Information on this issue, the Hanoi City Police said, the Ministry of Public Security has applied many security solutions and regularly updates the national electronic identification system to ensure data safety for the public. citizen.

The data during the transaction is protected through multiple layers of secrecy and encrypted by advanced algorithms. Therefore, citizens can feel secure to make transactions and use other features on the national electronic identification (VNEID) application to ensure information safety and security.

Answering people’s concerns about whether personal data displayed on the VNEID application will be illegally accessed when the phone accidentally installs malicious applications, the Hanoi City Police said, the Electronic identity data is not stored on mobile devices that have installed VNEID applications of people, so it is difficult for strange applications to access the device to steal information.

Only when the citizen registers for access will it be displayed on the application and the citizen fully knows the exact presentation to display information to other objects (if necessary). Presenting and displaying information is similar to presenting physical documents and cards.

When a functional officer has a request to check personal informationFor documents, citizens must “permit” ie grant the right to inspect, so that officials can view the information within the permitted scope.

In the case of third parties such as service providers such as banks, e-wallets…; If you want to use people’s data in your services, you must also obtain the consent of the people. Depending on the level of authentication and security of the third party, citizen information will be digitally signed (anti-change, anti-repudiation) and encrypted. Systems of third parties, when connected to electronic identification and authentication systems, must be securely authenticated.

“However, to ensure safety against high-tech criminals, people do not install strange and malicious applications, do not share their account information as well as pay attention to the security of their devices. your device is using an e-identification application”Hanoi City Police recommends.

This agency also noted, to ensure the safety of personal electronic identification accountpeople do not share account information with others, need to log out of their accounts when lending their devices to others, and always update information about the application to receive the latest news – notifications on directions. information security guide.

Van Anh