You recognize the phrase. The Spanish version of “Brave New World.”
Most folks here have already seen this so the message is for those who may be, foolishly or otherwise, considering living here.
As of February, 2025, the CL government requires that the telecommunications companies identify their customers with biometrics. Up until now it has been a matter of common practice but not a statutory requirement. The new regulation requires mandatory use of facial and/or digital (“finger”) identification. Phones and internet services including mobile modems are affected.
The purpose may be manifold but it is part of the growing government measures to allow no one to be anonymous, nor to allow anyone to lawfully use a telephone or even a modem or anything else using a cellphone frequency that is not tied to the ability of the government to identify a user. Brave New World, indeed. Or maybe Orwellian 1984ish.
The cognoscenti know how to get around this sort of interference, by avoiding Chilean telecom companies and instead using foreign providers, and foreign phones not homolgomated to the CL regulation, and through foreign purchases of E-SIM services.
Thanks, It will happen everywhere there is a connection to the internet. Even the “private” browsing is illusory. As for 'fixes", just patches until they no longer work.
I would assume that this legislation is an attempt to curb the massive amount of online fraud that goes on here.
One recent inmate of the local prison told me that an area had been set aside (by the inmates, obviously) to function as a sort of communications centre where they practice all types of online scams on the Cell network. Using illegal, probably stolen phones.
Yet again, the actions of criminals is making life more difficult for the law-abiding, probably without affecting illegal activity in the least.
And in the face of threatened prisoner unrest, the government seems to have backed down from the implementation of Cellular signal blockers in penal establishments, so they are attempting to address the problem with yet more useless legislation.
A reminder of the utter lack of seriousness of these backwater Chilean governments in meaningful treatment of the massive levels of crime that made the country famous.
