The card networks, and Visa and MasterCard in particular, are making (and have made) a series of investments to create offers and promotions ecosystems. These ecosystems make it possible for merchants with offers and consumers with network-branded cards to be connected, via issuers, through their relationships with card-linked offers platforms. Other innovators with data assets and mobile payments assets and technology enablers can all play along too, by connecting to the card networks, the merchant or issuers.
The constitution provides that no one shall be compelled to reveal his or her religious beliefs. Although there is a space in which to list one's religious affiliation on national identity cards, citizens may choose not to include a religion on their cards. Many religious groups complained that by not including an identity or listing something other than Muslim, individuals were precluded from jobs in the state bureaucracy or government and discriminated against in the private sector.