Talk:National identification number

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[edit] USA

Many political parties including Action For Justice (AFJ) www.action4justice.com consider the use of the SSN as a form of a National Identification Number (NIN) to be unconstitutional and violates among others, the fundamental right to privacy.

http://action4justice.com is The website for AFJ.

Some religious groups even speculate that the SSN is the precursor, or already is, the prophesized Mark of the Beast. Luis F. Gonzalez 18:17, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Taiwan

http://jidanni.org/comp/checksums/taiwanidchecksum is Taiwan ID checksum computation, but sorry mostly just the math.

[edit] Malaysia

I removed the bit that suggested the last 4 digits may denote the blood type as this is exceedingly unlikely. I have no idea what my blood type even though I'm 24 is nor do I suspect many 12 year old kids when they get their ICs/MyKads (although in my case I could probably work out based on my siblings who do know and I should be able to find out my fathers). It's not something you provide on the form so it's rather unlikely the government will know either. They could in some cases work out from the parents but not all cases (and that's assuming they know the blood type of the parents) Nil Einne 12:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

The last 4 digits is randomly generated but the last digit is used to differentiate between male and female using odd and even numbers. The notion of these digits represent specific element, information or segregation is untrue.

I don't recall being asked my blood type when I applied for MyKad, in 2004. Snow cat 05:48, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hong Kong

[minor edit] the letters and numbers are of course not arbitrary. Go check out the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKID esp the chinese one will tell you exactly what the letters mean, and there's a math formula for the numbers, hence the check "digit" at the end, duh.

[edit] Japan

I don't know if Japan has anything like a national identification number, but most people do have a personal seal (a hanko) which is usually custom made and is registered with the government. Any kind of official form requires your personal seal.

[edit] Redirection

The redirection from "account number" to "National identification number" is highly misleading, since an "account number" is normally associated with bank or other financial accounts. I suggest that the this redirection be removed, or at least changed so that "account number" goes to "IBAN" (international bank account number).

[edit] Norway

Moved this text written by anonymous 217.68.102.69 at 2007-10-29T11:15:19 from the article:

There could be something wrong with this text, I am english and learning Norsk, but an offical document seems to be different. Here is a link to it. SSN Fødselsnummer

Plutix 11:19, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

The information in the article is taken directly from the secondary law. You can read it here. The document you found is not an official document, and it is apparently wrong. Plutix 11:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sweden

It has been said that a number of foreign tourists to Sweden were even asked to provide their personnummer to receive certain services and that is ridiculous.

This sounds abit biased to me. 90.230.54.138 (talk) 16:37, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

It is a fact that the "personnummer" is used in the medical care to keep track of the patients. Patients in medical care should not be mismatched, that is a medical hazard. Therefore the "personnummer" is always asked for. One should be able to get medical care as a foreign tourist anyway, either as a EU citizen of with a medical travel insurance, but they will ask. To open a bank account the "personnummer" is absolutely needed, plus a Swedish identity document with the "personnummer" on. I don't know if tourists need that. It would be nice to know what the bold text above refers to.-- BIL (talk) 23:07, 27 January 2008 (UTC)