The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said it will commence the implementation of tokenization of National Identity Number (NIN) by January 1, 2022, with the aim of protecting holders’ identities during verification processes.

Thegistday gathered that the Director-General of NIMC, Engr Aliyu Aziz while speaking at a one-day Stakeholders’ Workshop on National Identification Number (NIN) Tokenization Solution, said the NIN Tokenization is to protect the personal information of the holders.

All You Need To Know About National Identification Number (NIN) Tokenization
What Is NIN Tokenization?
NIN tokenization helps to protect an individual’s data privacy via the use of an encrypted, coded representation (“disguised”) version of the NIN rather than actual NIN itself in day-to-day transactions.

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