The “National Cyberspace Identity Validation System” was approved at the 59th meeting of the SCC on September 9, 2019. The preamble of this resolution states that ID verification is necessary for any type of technical, economic, cultural, social, political, and administrative interaction between individuals, groups, entities, services, content, and places. To this end, this resolution proposes structures that:
1- Similar to the registration of civil status, provide responsibility for securing basic identity information of entities (users, objects, etc.) and classify them into permanent, temporary, and real or fictional identities.
2- ID providers: with the responsibility of validating non-basic identity information such as educational certificates and financial credibility. The job of this structure is to verify or reject the claimed information.
Article 3 of this legislation emphasizes that all user interactions with the internet, NIN, or internal systems such as the Smart Government Window must go through identity verification channels. According to clause 6 of Article 3, the mentioned identity is unique to each person, and any concealing or forging this identity (including the provision of related devices) is considered a crime (clause 7 of Article 3 of the legislation).
The executors of this legislation are:
1- National Center of Cyberspace, Executive Branch, and Judiciary: preparing drafts of regulations and legal bills.
2- National Center of Cyberspace:
- Reporting on the implementation of the legislation to the SCC.
- Collecting a list of identity providers for the “application layer” to register and issue identities and certificates to all entities in that layer.
- Preparing and announcing the national identity transformation plan and program in cyberspace.
- Approving and announcing general regulations and rules of the cyberspace identity ecosystem.
- Monitoring the proper execution of commitments by identity providers and national credibility providers.
Article 3, section 1 of this legislation by the SCC emphasizes that any online interaction must take place with a valid identity, and anyone within the NIN or related networks must have their identity verified. Section 5 of the same article states that all providers of technical, economic (financial and monetary), cultural, social, political, and administrative services in the country must operate within the framework and in accordance with the national identity validation system and avoid accepting or engaging in interactions without a valid identity.
In simpler terms, all internet users (or those within the NIN or related networks such as the smart government) are affected by the provisions of this legislation, and the beginning of interaction between citizens and these online systems begins with the identification and verification of their identity.
Abolhassan Firouzabadi, the head of the National Cyberspace Center; supporters of the “Child and Adolescent Online Protection” plan; Nasser Esmaeili, the project manager of Samava (an identity verification system in cyberspace); Col. Davoud Moazami Goudarzi, the head of Tehran’s Cyber Police; supporters of the “Child and Adolescent Online Protection” plan in the Cultural Commission of the Parliament, Rouhollah Momen-nasab, Ali Akbar Raefeiepour, Reza Taghipour, Nasrollah Pejmanfar, Kayhan newspaper.
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