The Ministry of Public Security’s Project 06 is central to this transformation, consolidating fragmented population records into a unified National Population Database. The launch of the National Data Center in 2025 added another layer, centralizing state data management and integrating 157 million records from 16 national and specialized databases. The center has been referred to as the “brain” of Vietnam’s digital transformation, streamlining administrative procedures and supporting socio-economic planning. Most recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has circulated a draft regulation that would require continuous biometric verification of mobile subscribers. Article Topicsbiometrics | continuous authentication | digital ID | e-ID | facial recognition | identity verification | Project 06 | Vietnam | VNeID