SENATOR Panfilo Lacson downplayed on Sunday the warning raised by some groups that the passage of the national identification system bill would pose a threat to security and people’s privacy, saying that only enemies of the government and those who uses “aliases” will be affected by the measure.

Lacson said the bill, which seeks to establish the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys), would be beneficial to billions of Filipinos because they could use the national ID in all transactions.

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