Overview

• The reform enacted July 7 makes the biometric CURP the sole mandatory identification for all public and private transactions nationwide.
• Authorities have 90 days to deploy systems for consulting, transferring and validating fingerprints, iris scans, facial images, electronic signatures and QR codes or incur fines of 10,000–20,000 UMAs.
• Within 120 days of the law’s entry into force, the Interior Ministry must establish a program to integrate girls’, boys’ and adolescents’ biometric data into the national registry.
• Pilot enrollments continue in select Veracruz municipalities as the Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones releases technical specifications for linking the CURP with the Llave MX digital-ID platform.
• Small and medium-sized businesses warn that limited cybersecurity infrastructure and resource gaps could hinder compliance and expose citizens’ sensitive biometric information