Friday, June 12, 2015

Peru: Prepaid mobile sales will require fingerprint verification against national ID database

...with an assist from Microsoft Translator

From now prepaid mobile lines will be sold with fingerprint identification of users (Osiptel)
The operators will be required to verify the identity of users wishing to hire mobile public services in their offices, in the form of prepaid. This identification will be held from today through biometric fingerprint verification systems, which will be connected with the RENIEC database.
Full implementation is to be accomplished by January 1, 2017.