Emirates ID already being used as medical insurance card, bank card
UAE residents will soon be able to use their Emirates ID
cards to fill up their car tanks.
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has announced a pilot
self-service scheme in which it will allow residents to fill their car tanks
using three modes of payment, including the Emirates ID card, which will be
connected to and activated in Adnoc Wallet in Abu Dhabi.
The pilot phase will cover four service stations located in
Abu Dhabi.
Adnoc said in a media statement that customers
registering for its Adnoc Wallet will have their ID cards linked to their Adnoc
Wallet accounts and it will be activated for free.
The seven-month pilot phase of its smart self-service
refuelling will begin on March 1, 2016.
The Emirates ID card is mandatory for all citizens and UAE
residents, and the Emirates Identity Authority (Eida) has been progressively
linking services to the ID card.
Last week, Al Etihad Credit Bureau announced that it had
launched the Application-to-Application (A2A) advanced feature in January 2016,
which allows UAE banks to use their customers’ Emirates ID to access a host of
data.
Banks in the UAE are now able to track credit history of
applicants via an app that the country’s credit bureau launched last month,
which links an individual's financial details with his/her Emirates ID.
The bureau announced that Mashreq has already become the
first bank to enable this advanced feature, with several others set to soon
follow suit.
Emirates ID is already linked as a proof of residence with a
number of UAE services, including bank accounts, telecom services and Ejari
services.
In addition, Dubai government staff already use their
Emirates ID as a medical insurance card, with all other residents set to make
that transition this year itself.
In late 2014, Al Hilal Bank became the first bank in the UAE
to offer its customers the facility to use their Emirates ID card as Automatic
Teller Machine (ATM) cards to withdraw cash from ATM machines.
According to Eida, the Emirates ID card includes an
individual’s personal data to be read automatically in usages that require the
holder to provide an identity evidence and authentication.
Some of these data are encrypted and only
readable/writable/updatable by the authorised authorities in order to protect
the privacy of data. This chip may store up to 32,000 letters of information,
it says.
The Emirates ID card has nine security features which
makes falsification of the card very difficult for such features excels the
current used standards in many cards such as the banking credit cards.
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