As of August 2021, the BSN will be removed from passports and identity cards and moved to a QR code on the back of identity cards and the holding page of passports. So writes State Secretary Knops (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations) in a letter to the House of Representatives.
Now the number is still visible when people make a copy of their identity documents. The BSN will remain visible on the back of identity cards and on the back of the holder page of passports, so that people can still find it easily. 'With this I guarantee that less digitally proficient people can still consult and check the BSN without running into an obstacle,' Knops said in the letter.
Moving the BSN to the QR code also means that the BSN no longer appears in the chip on passports and identity cards. Many agencies scan the chip and read the BSN without the citizen's knowledge. Knops wants to counter this with the new measure.
The QR code makes it easier to prevent identity fraud. Removing the BSN is "a good measure to reduce risks, and an improvement over the current situation," according to the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens .
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