"The Ministry of Transport and Communications in Myanmar has come up with a strategy to create a national database of private citizen information by making biometric data collection mandatory when purchasing mobile phone services, The Myanmar Times reports. Residents already have to show and register an identity document when purchasing SIM cards. According to a tender document the publication claims to have reviewed last month, the government is accepting proposal submissions for a “national database to store and manage biometric mobile subscriber registration information from all mobile network operators in Myanmar.” It further “intends to build a national database capturing biometric subscriber registration information of every mobile network user” to “ensure proper and secure registration of mobile network users and to prevent any malicious use of mobile networks.”..."