The Council of Ministers has approved this Tuesday the Royal Decree for the issuance of the new ID that can be carried on the mobile, In an application, and that requires this step so that the document in digital format has the same validity as that of physical format.
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, explained that the new digital ID will serve, in a first phase, only To identify and perform procedures in person as “vote, open a bank account or sign deeds before a notary.” It will also serve, has specified, for the registration in a hotel or for the rental of vehicles.
Thus, for the moment the ID on the mobile alone It will allow to identify in national territory if the physical format is not carried. At the moment it will not be used to travel or to do telematic administrative procedures or to demand electronic signature, according to police sources, and has confirmed the Interior Minister.
The Royal Decree is necessary to start up the applications that have already been developed And that it will make it possible that, through an application called ‘Mi DNI’, you have access to this document and thus be able to be accredited, for example before an agent since the application will be connected to the centralized DNI expedition system.
According to the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, with this PSO Spain will be ” First country in the world in having a national identity document on the mobile “. Interior foresees that in 2026 it will be in full performance and also valid on the Internet.
Of green cardboard to mobile
The first National Identity Document (DNI) was born in 1944. It was Francisco Franco who on March 2, 1944 signed the decree of creation of the green color document and whose precursors were already in the 19th century the security cards or identity passports.
However, the postwar period He expanded his implementation process that finally started in 1951 in Madrid, Zaragoza and Valencia.
In that year A woman, resident in Valencia, had in her hands the first ID in our country. This document carried the imperial eagle and the flag of Spain, in addition to two spaces reserved for photography and the fingerprint.
Like the current ones, they had a personal, universal and permanent number until their owner died. The number one was reserved Franco and the next two, his family. From 10 they belonged to the royal family and until 100 were empty.
Electronic document in 2006
That ID was in force until 1962, when he went to the color bluea model that had four variations. For example, in democracy the Francoist shield was eliminated in favor of the Constitutional.
The 90s brought the computerization of the DNI. The currency and bell factory was in charge of the design and production of the new smaller documents. Six years later, photography was incorporated in color. Already entered the new century, the DNI is issued by Bilingual in Catalonia, Valencia, Balearicas, Basque Country and Galicia.
The jump to the electronic document arrived in 2006. The card is the size of a bank card and is polycarbonate, so the data is recorded with laser. Incorporates a chip and allows the connection to telematic services of a card reader connected to the computer. The chip includes digitized personal data From the owner of the document, the affiliation, digitized image of the photograph, of the handwritten firm and template of the finger printing of the index finger of the right hand.
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