The NFT Phenomenon, Dangerous If You Upload An E-KTP Selfie

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JAKARTA - The Director General of Population and Civil Registration (Dirjen Dukcapil) of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Zudan Arif Fakrullah, warned of the dangers of uploading selfies together with an electronic identity card or e-KTP related to the phenomenon of the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) digital business.

Zudan said the sale and upload of photos of population documents was very vulnerable to crime. "Selling photos of population documents and taking selfies with e-KTP documents on the side are very vulnerable to fraud or fraud or crimes by 'data scavengers'," said Zudan in his statement was quoted by Antara, Sunday, January 16. By uploading a photo of a population document containing information on personal data, Zudan continued, it can be easily used by criminals. "Because the population data can be resold in the underground market or used in online economic transactions. , for example like pinjol (online loans)," he added. Therefore, Zudan appealed to the entire community to be more selective in choosing trustworthy parties in providing verification and validation of population documents containing personal information. "Therefore, the importance of education is to the whole community not to be easy to show personal and personal data in any online media, (education) is very necessary," he explained.

Zudan appealed to those who committed the crime of distributing population documents, including themselves, to be subject to a maximum imprisonment of 10 years and a maximum fine of Rp. 1,000,000,000." This is mandated in Article 96 and Article 96a of Law Number 24 Year 2013 concerning Amendments to Law Number 23 of 2006 concerning Population Administration," said Zudan. For information, NFT is a digital product that can be sold and purchased using blockchain technology. NFTs have functions such as digital certificates that show ownership or authority over a work of art. NFTs can be traded on the online marketplace or the OpenSea marketplace, which was first founded by Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah in March 2020.