![]() The conformity of the European Digital Identity Wallets with the requirements laid out in the regulation will be certified by accredited public and private bodies. Moreover, Prague proposed that verification of the user’s identity should be carried out by certified providers only at the highest assurance level rather than at the intermediate ‘substantial’ level as well. One point for discussion is if the member states might provide, following national law, additional functionalities such as interoperability with existing electronic IDs. The European Parliament’s rapporteur put forth a number of proposals to improve the European Digital Identity Wallet as part of the new eIDAS Regulation, focusing on interoperability, data privacy and equal access. ![]() Leading MEP proposes changes on privacy, access, interoperability for European digital wallet ![]() “From a privacy perspective, it makes absolutely no sense,” said Thomas Lohninger, executive director at the Epicenter.works, a digital rights advocacy, stressing that a physical situation might in fact put the users even more under pressure to accept giving up more data than those strictly necessary.įor Lohninger, as eIDs systems might become ubiquitous in the next ten years, they need solid data protection safeguards whilst the Czechs are “sacrificing privacy for ease of business.”įor instance, the text does not cover further data processing that might happen after the interaction. New specifications have been included for these services to be able to register, but the Czechs also included an exception for registration in case the interaction occurs in ‘fully offline mode’.įor instance, if a user shows a QR code and the service provider scans it, it would qualify as fully offline if the information on the scanned code stays on the device and is not transmitted to a server. Public and private services who intend to use the European wallet for identification purposes will have to register in the member states where they are established, a safeguard already included under the French EU presidency, as these services would be processing personal data. In its proposal for the amending regulation to establish a framework for a European Digital Identity, the Commission proposed a much-debated “unique and persistent electronic identifier”, from which it is now shying away. However, a unique identifier is still possible under national law and administrative practice, where the latter concept is left undefined.Ĭommission says single identifier in eIDAS reform ‘not necessary’ The article on unique identification has been changed to record matching, a more complex and privacy-friendly system that allows identifying a person by matching several segments of personal data. The compromise includes a definition of “unique and persistent identifier” as “an identifier which may consist of either single or multiple national or sectoral identification data, is associated with a single user within a given system and persistent in time”. The most significant change now is that the European Digital Identity Wallets have been added as an electronic identification means. ![]() The compromise follows a discussion that took place in July where, with the significant exception of France and Germany, all member states pushed for the Digital Wallet to be an identification means in its own right, rather than just an ‘empty shell’. National representatives will then be able to submit specific drafting suggestions until 12 September. The document will be discussed at the EU Council’s Telecom Working Party meetings on 5 and 8 September. The Czech presidency of the EU Council circulated last week a new compromise text on the European Digital Identity (eIDs) proposal, a file that has so far seen limited progress due to its technical complexity.
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