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The National Identity Document (DNI), issued by the General Directorate of the Police (Ministry of the Interior), is the document that accredits the identity of the Spaniards.

With the arrival of the Information Society and the widespread use of the Internet, it became necessary to adapt the mechanisms of personality accreditation to the new reality and to have an effective instrument, which would transfer to the digital world the same certainties with which we operate every day in the physical world.

To respond to these new needs, the National Electronic Identity Document was born, whose main novelty was the incorporation of a small integrated circuit (chip), capable of safely storing information and processing it internally.

This new version of the National Identity Document was called the National Electronic Identity Document. And we can use it to:

• Make signed purchases through the Internet
• Complete procedures with the Public Administrations at any time and without having to travel or queue
• Make secure transactions with banking entities
• Access to the building where we work
• Safely using our personal computer
• Participate in a conversation on the Internet with the certainty that our interlocutor is who he says he is

In order to move forward and adapt to the new times, the digital version of the National Identity Document is born, which allows identification in person in the national territory (not being valid as a travel document).

For more information on the National Identity Document in its physical or digital form, please consult the official website of the National Electronic Identity Document www.dnielectronico.es .