NIK unhappy with Interior Ministry's ID card incompetence

A contract signed between the Ministry of Interior and Administration and the Hungarian company Multipolaris Kft, one of the shareholders of a consortium producing IDs for the government, makes it impossible for the Ministry to control the ID system. Furthermore, the Ministry failed to register the data collected in the ID production process with the General Inspector for Personal Data Protection, for which the NIK has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office. On top of this, the NIK also claims that the Ministry will not be able to replace all IDs by the statutory date of 2007. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 7) A.F.