Re:Official Mastodon server of the Dutch government
by vidarh on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @12:25PM
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The EU/EEA has eIDAS which requires providers to recognise electronic IDs issued across the EEA to some extent.
Since I'm in the UK (grumblegrumble Brexit) I haven't kept up that much despite being a Norwegian citizen, but in some countries at least this in theory IDs issued to certain standards by private actors. E.g. Norway has MinID (government issued), BankID (bank issued, also allows bank logins), Commfides and BuyPass, all of which issues id's that you can use to log in or sign with that tie your signature to the Norwegian national ID number.
Many of the countries makes extensive use of these IDs. E.g. in Norway you can log in to most government services with any of the recognised providers, and can sign contracts and even marriage licenses with them.
Interestingly Norway and Estonia appears to be the only two countries that have submitted more than one eID scheme to the European Commission for acceptance across the EEA, and interestingly for Norway both of them are privately provided; the (lower security) government run ID scheme has not been submitted:
Since I'm in the UK (grumble grumble Brexit) I haven't kept up that much despite being a Norwegian citizen, but in some countries at least this in theory IDs issued to certain standards by private actors. E.g. Norway has MinID (government issued), BankID (bank issued, also allows bank logins), Commfides and BuyPass, all of which issues id's that you can use to log in or sign with that tie your signature to the Norwegian national ID number.
Many of the countries makes extensive use of these IDs. E.g. in Norway you can log in to most government services with any of the recognised providers, and can sign contracts and even marriage licenses with them.
Interestingly Norway and Estonia appears to be the only two countries that have submitted more than one eID scheme to the European Commission for acceptance across the EEA, and interestingly for Norway both of them are privately provided; the (lower security) government run ID scheme has not been submitted:
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/wikis/display/E...