Towards a biometric Vitale card to fight against social fraud? – 20 minutes

The idea did not fall on deaf ears. The Minister of Health assured on Tuesday that the government “will support a parliamentary mission” about a biometric Vitale card to fight against social fraud. This proposal, demanded for a long time by the right and the extreme right, “deserves to be worked on”, affirmed François Braun. recovered in an exhaustive manner”, he declared to the National Assembly, assuring that the executive would have “no complacency with regard to those who defraud”. Experimentation of a dematerialized card in progress Advocating “an approach of this subject through an objective assessment of the loss of earnings and the adoption of appropriate measures”, the Minister recalled that the experimentation of a dematerialized Vitale card was in progress and that it “should be evaluated” The Minister also deemed it necessary to “evaluate the conditions of effectiveness (and) feasibility in connection with professionals” of a biometric card, raised by the deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle Thibault Bazin (LR). Consequently, “the government will support a parliamentary mission to monitor the ongoing deployment of the new Vitale card, without any taboos and without prejudice, and to assess its relevance and possible developments”, he added. Concession to the parliamentary right This concession to the parliamentary right is made “at the request of Prime Minister” Elisabeth Borne, he said, the executive wanting to be “listening to constructive ideas to move our country forward in a cross-partisan way”, while a bitter debate has just started on his “purchasing power” bill. This positioning will appear as a change of foot because the presidential majority had rejected a bill from the senators LR on the same subject, in particular in the name of “protection of privacy and personal data”. This did not prevent three of the five contenders for the presidential primary from the same party (Xavier Bertrand, Michel Barni er, Eric Ciotti) to take up this idea, which was already on the program of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012, but also that of Marine Le Pen in the last three presidential elections.