EU Digital ID wallet is coming
I don&#x27;t believe a word. The three scenarios used to promote the benefits have some big stumbling blocks that can&#x27;t be solved with simple credential storage.<p>&gt; With the EU Digital ID wallet, the bank can request the necessary credentials from the applicant. He or she selects them, and in seconds they are verified by the bank. The process even includes an eSignature that signals the applicant’s agreement.<p>This seems a bit off.<p>As a US citizen living in Sweden, my bank also wants to know if a customer is a US citizen, because special regulations apply.<p>For the above scenario to work, the EU Digital ID wallet will have to store citizenship information, including potentially multiple citizenships.<p>Sweden recognizes the State of Palestine. Will the EU Digital ID wallet allow storing that information?<p>&gt; The student can use her EU Digital ID wallet to access, for example, the diploma she gained in one country and have it accepted instantly in any other EU country.<p>That&#x27;s ... also odd. That&#x27;s not how it works now. A diploma in one country doesn&#x27;t necessarily translate to something directly in another country. Quoting <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uhr.se&#x2F;globalassets&#x2F;_uhr.se&#x2F;bedomning&#x2F;informationsblad&#x2F;uhr-infoblad-engelska.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uhr.se&#x2F;globalassets&#x2F;_uhr.se&#x2F;bedomning&#x2F;informatio...</a> &quot;A recognition statement is a document that shows what your qualification corresponds to in the Swedish education system. To prepare the statement, we review your education documents.&quot;<p>An app storing credentials isn&#x27;t enough.<p>&gt; With the EU Digital ID wallet, the person can provide trusted proof of age and nothing more.<p>Bars and nightclubs also gather names to help spot people who have been banned, and will also share a list of banned people with other bars. They also gather this information to spot VIP customers.<p>They are&#x27;t going to want to give it up.<p>In practice it will be like a a go-away-cookie-banner button. The bar&#x27;s system will ask for more information, people will press the &quot;confirm&quot; button w&#x2F;o reading, and the bar will still get demographic information. Those few who do read and say &quot;no&quot; will not be allowed entry.<p>If preventing this sort of information leak is important, then make it illegal to collect more information than is needed to verify age, or restrict what can be done with that information.<p>&gt; Billions of people regularly use mobile apps, so the process will be familiar to the vast majority of citizens and businesses.<p>An odd statement. The population of the EU is less than 1 billion, so this refers to the world-wide population. But world-wide, billions of people <i>don&#x27;t</i> regularly use mobile apps.<p>A better statement would be the number of people in the EU who regularly use mobile phones. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newzoo.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;rankings&#x2F;top-countries-by-smartphone-penetration-and-users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newzoo.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;rankings&#x2F;top-countries-by-smartp...</a> says for Italy that&#x27;s about 75% penetration.<p>I assume that more direct comparison wasn&#x27;t used to avoid talking about what to do for the people in the EU who don&#x27;t have or don&#x27;t want smartphones.