With the obligation of biometric registration for access to social benefits, the federal government wants to accelerate the issuance of the new National identity card (Cin). On Wednesday (23), the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI) presented new measures on data governance in the country and the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed the decree that regulates the use of biometrics in the concession, renewal and maintenance of social benefits.
The Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services, Esther Dweck, explained that this charge will be made responsibly to guarantee the rights of those who need it. “The implementation will be gradual, starting with the new concessions. For those who already have the benefit the deadline to adapt will be a little longer,” he said, explaining that There are exceptions to the obligation as people over 80 years old and difficulty in mobility.
To promote this digital inclusion of citizens, The government has signed a partnership with Caixa Econômica Federal for the Biometric Collection of CNE to be made by taking advantage of the bank’s capillarity in serving remote and vulnerable communities. As a large payer of Bolsa Familia, for example, Caixa already has the biometrics of over 90% of the beneficiaries of the program. A pilot project will be implemented in Rio Grande do Norte to accelerate this digital civil identification infrastructure with states.
The obligation of biometrics for access to social benefits is provided for in Law 15.077/2024 And it aims to give care policies more security and convenience to people, facilitating access to different public policies. And CNI today is the government’s main biometric and biographical foundation for the identification of citizens.
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National identity
“It’s the citizen’s skill for the digital world,” MGI’s secretary of digital government said Rogério Mascarenhas in a press interview. He explained, for example, that CNI already gives the gold seal at gov.br, the Federal Government’s service platform. Access to system functions is divided by reliability seals – bronze, silver and gold.
Launched in 2022, the CNI is issued by the state security departments, provides for the collection of digital and facial biometrics of citizens and uses the CPF as a single identification number. Today, different biometric bases already include data from 150 million people, such as the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), the National Traffic Secretariat (Senatran) and the Federal Police.
The use of biometrics for access to social benefits will be gradual from the capacity of states to issue CNI and a schedule that will still be defined in MGI Ordinance. “We have to move forward in digitization but we can’t exclude people,” said Mascarenhas. “Until we have a broad registration of the ID card, this database orchestration will guarantee access to rights,” explained the secretary.
According to Minister Esther, a calendar to issue CIN is agreed with states based on a financial incentive from the federal government. Today, states are capable of issuing 1.8 million wallets per month and the government wants to increase this volume with the allocation of more resources from the National Public Security Fund to issue the document. To date, about 30 million CNI units have been issued.
Still at today’s event, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security launched the CNI validation application, through the document QR Code.
Data governance
Data integration, improvement of governance, greater automation in public services and combating fraud are among the objectives of the Government’s digital transformation. Minister Esther Dweck stressed that the national data infrastructure allows the government to know the Brazilian population better, draw more effective public policies and customize services.
“The database is already a reality and, with the increase in governance, we will be able to expand this to make life easier and improve the lives of our population which is our great goal,” said the minister, during the event.
To this end, the government also put in public consultation on Wednesday the new decree of governance and data sharing policy in the country. Interested parties can send their contributions until August 7 at the Portal do Participatory Brazil.
Policy focuses on the strategic and sovereign use of citizens and public instances. It creates a data governance structure in the federal government and establishes the roles of the executive and the data curator in each public administration body, responsible for the ethical, intensive and strategic use of the data. The decree also deals with interoperability and data sharing between agencies, municipalities and federal foundations.
For Secretary Mascarenhas, data must be processed as a strategic asset and not as a mere operational issue. “Where is this data? The framework of geopolitics has worsened, we have a risk associated with this data issue. They are all eyeing the data and we have to have concern about how this treatment is happening,” he said.
The decree provides, for example, that more sensitive data, which involve banking, fiscal and accounting secrecy, can only be stored in the cloud of government, in the national territory. This cloud is operated by two public companies, the Federal Data Processing Service (Serpro) and the Social Security Technology and Information Company (Dataprev).
The text of the new decree also empowers the Central Data Governance Committee (CCGD), giving greater plurality and strength to civil society, which integrates this body through representative institutions.
Federative integration
Minister Esther Dweck also stressed the importance of federative integration. “This process of transformation of the state, it can not only be of the federal government. If it is not integrated with the other entities of the Federation, in fact, we are failing to improve the life of the population at the tip, where they live,” he said.
The federal agenda also covers the national strategy of digital government and the expansion of the GOV.br network, which brings digital transformation to states and municipalities throughout Brazil. All states and the Federal District, in addition to 2004 municipalities have already joined the network, which promotes training, sharing good practices and use of solutions such as Electronic Signature Gov.br.
In the same vein, President Lula also signed the decree that creates the National Health Data Network (RNDS), which will connect different systems and establish the infrastructure for safe and standardized health data sharing in all federative spheres. It will also have the CPF as the main key for access to health services, along with the Unified Health System (SUS) number.
MGI still presented the application today My rural property“A concrete example of the unified use of databases to improve a public policy.” It brings together in a single environment the main information and documents of rural properties and, with this, the rural owner no longer needs to access three different systems to obtain data and identify environmental, land and tax issues of his property.
