Colombia is using digital ID to fight its village hackers

While Colombia may be famous to the rest of the world mostly for its coffee, the Latin American country may soon have another export – its digital identity.

Since November 2020, the Colombian government has been equipping citizens with a new physical identity card alongside a digital extension on smartphones, relying on biometric authentication. The digital ID has been bringing disruption to the citizens' relationship with the corporate and with the public sector, says Borja Carreras, President of digital identity …

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