The government is not going to do anything to an issue in which third-party travel data anonymous ov-chipkaart can follow. Anyone who does not want to, can better a personal ov-chipkaart, argues the secretary of state of Infrastructure.
Therefore, the data on the ov-chipkaart enough. Those who have an ov-chipkaart wants to follow, only the card number and expiry date are required. This could, for example, jealous spouses, their significant other, and would employers be able to check whether their staff is indeed sick at home. This is the restriction that an ov-chipkaart only once to an account that can be linked. Personal ov-chip cards are better protected. To those cards to be able to follow, must also be personal data, such as address details will be completed.
State secretary Mansveld stressed in her letter that only to see who is where check-in and that it is not known whom the card has travelled. “An anonymous card can be done by multiple people used,” she writes. Set a measure by which users, for example, with their card at a vending machine must log in to view the travel information to make it possible, would be to additional thresholds lead’ and so ‘at odds with the ease-of-use’.
In addition, there is a solution, according to the secretary of state. “If a traveller is not the risk will be that third parties, the transaction data can see, than he can with a personal ov-chipkaart”, writes Mansveld. That card is as expensive as an anonymous chip card, says the letter, but the dilemma that a user is not anonymous, it remains unspoken.