Identity is one of the great challenges of the digital age.
Trust matters when you are doing business with someone, or trying to access a service of some sort. But in a world of remote transactions behind screens, trust is hard to establish. How can you know for sure that the other party is genuine?
How do you even know they are human?
In June 2021, the European Commission set out to tackle this problem head on.
It proposed to give every EU citizen a set of strong digital identity credentials that will be recognized anywhere in the zone. These credentials will be accessible from a digital wallets and available to anyone from their mobile device.
What will this mean? Simply, it will give any EU citizen or business the ability to prove their identity or any entitlements quickly and reliably. This will make it much easier to access public and private sector services online – or to simply transact. Previously complicated and time-consuming processes will become simple and quick.
Use cases might include:
* Requesting access to a public record such as birth certificate, medical record or land registry
* On-boarding a customer to a digital service
* Signing a business contract
* Opening a bank account
* Filing a tax return
* Applying for a university place anywhere in the EU
* Claiming a medical prescription
* Proving age
* Renting a car or registering a company car fleet contract
* Checking in to a hotel .
I can’t wait for this to work EU-wide.
I wanna get to a point where I can leave my ID at home, have a **valid** ID on my phone, and be able to access all government services easily.
Furthermore, boarding an airplane should be as easy as a quick tap with my phone. No more pulling out a paper ticket, ID card, vaccine proof and so on.
Every day we are getting closer and closer to losing our identity and becoming a plain number
I don’t see the point for it. We already have all this stuff per country. People traveling and needing this between countries is such so few people. It’ll never be as secure as a national one can be.
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Identity is one of the great challenges of the digital age.
Trust matters when you are doing business with someone, or trying to access a service of some sort. But in a world of remote transactions behind screens, trust is hard to establish. How can you know for sure that the other party is genuine?
How do you even know they are human?
In June 2021, the European Commission set out to tackle this problem head on.
It proposed to give every EU citizen a set of strong digital identity credentials that will be recognized anywhere in the zone. These credentials will be accessible from a digital wallets and available to anyone from their mobile device.
What will this mean? Simply, it will give any EU citizen or business the ability to prove their identity or any entitlements quickly and reliably. This will make it much easier to access public and private sector services online – or to simply transact. Previously complicated and time-consuming processes will become simple and quick.
Use cases might include:
* Requesting access to a public record such as birth certificate, medical record or land registry
* On-boarding a customer to a digital service
* Signing a business contract
* Opening a bank account
* Filing a tax return
* Applying for a university place anywhere in the EU
* Claiming a medical prescription
* Proving age
* Renting a car or registering a company car fleet contract
* Checking in to a hotel .
I can’t wait for this to work EU-wide.
I wanna get to a point where I can leave my ID at home, have a **valid** ID on my phone, and be able to access all government services easily.
Furthermore, boarding an airplane should be as easy as a quick tap with my phone. No more pulling out a paper ticket, ID card, vaccine proof and so on.
Every day we are getting closer and closer to losing our identity and becoming a plain number
I don’t see the point for it. We already have all this stuff per country. People traveling and needing this between countries is such so few people. It’ll never be as secure as a national one can be.
This already exists in Ukraine
https://youtu.be/LMmk0HSZgDI
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Today is a good day
[Your papers, please](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-030-0780-28%2C_Krakau%2C_Razzia_von_deutscher_Ordnungspolizei.jpg) The EU can get fucked as far as I’m concerned.
EU finally catching up on digital technology, good