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Re:MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over a... by ivan_gammel on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:43AM (#47179873)
Does any government in the world issue only digital IDs?

There‘s always possibility to have your travel passport as a backup (and when traveling abroad your domestic ID is suitable for recovering passport).

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Re:MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over a... by u1hcw9nx on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:54AM (#47179966)
Not yet. Soon.
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Re:MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over a... by Muromec on Friday February 27, 2026 @08:07AM (#47180090)
Any governments announced the plans already? I somehow missed that, but you say it like it's a decided thing.
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Re:MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over a... by niels8472 on Friday February 27, 2026 @04:53PM (#47186183)
Considering the actual physical id cards have an nfc chip which is used as the second factor for the digital id, this seems unlikely.
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