[Koha-bugs] [Bug 32907] New: Add a field for personal ID

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=32907

            Bug ID: 32907
           Summary: Add a field for personal ID
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           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Patrons
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: magnus at libriotech.no
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: gmcharlt at gmail.com, kyle.m.hall at gmail.com

I know storing social security numbers are a big no-no in some countries, but
in others it is perfectly fine and legal. At least libraries in Norway and
Sweden expect an ILS to store and handle these numbers. They are not considered
"top secret", but are used "everywhere" to identify people. In these countries
it looks like a strange omission that "personal IDs" are not handled properly
by the system, but have to be shoe-horned in as an extended patron attribute.
This also makes it harder than necessary to write reports, sync data from
external sources etc. 

I propose that we 
- add a database column like borrowers.personalid
- add a syspref called something like UsePersonalID
- set UsePersonalID to false as the default
- make all display and handling of personalid dependent on UsePersonalID

This way handling personal IDs will be opt-in only, and something that can be a
choice for libraries that want/need to use it. 

Personal IDs could not only be social security numbers either, in an academic
library it could be used for e.g. ORCIDs: https://orcid.org/

A further enhancement to this would be to use personalid for logins, as a third
alternative to cardnumber and userid. This could also be governed by a syspref.

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