alt Hacker NewsEU Digital Identity Wallet rollout: every EU state on one board
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They named the German version of this d-you. Not sure what they were thinking or why it even needed a different name. It's just confusing and a really bad name.
Edit: just noticed everyone has its own name for it? How do they envision this when traveling? Every officer needs to know the 25 different versions of this? why can't it be one app for Europe?
I've been following this for a while. The deadline for rollout for consumers is the end of this year, but I'm not sure every country is going to make it.
The idea is that every person will have the option to use a wallet. For businesses of a certain size or type (those involved in strongly authenticating their customers, or very large platforms with more than 45M EU users) have to accept it by the end of 2027.
More details on the wallet here: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eudi-wallet/
I didn't investigate further, but the italian implementation, right now, apart from the fact it requires USA attestation (Play Integrity and the likes), it's not bad at all, it's just a convenient tool to not carry paper documents when asked officially by a public official. Plus we receive official documents like fines directly there
My country:
> Q4 2028. MIRRI plan item: implement EUDI wallet (scope unclear).
> 41 days to the EU deadline
Classic.
No thank you I do not want the EU to have digital kill switch on my life.
EU is definitely miles ahead of USA and other developed nations in building regulatory coverage most IT things. That's a great thing on one hand, but also leads to business and user friction on the other hand, due to the process burden and tech challenges the one need to go through. Every innovation has a hidden cost that gets shadowed by the excitement of the innovation.
Not to mention the huge centralization that is being caused by cloud tech. Centralization creates single point of failures and network effects.
This is a terrible website. So many things, at least on mobile, do not indicate they're doing anything. Like tapping the map and so on. Also seems very vibey, which is fine, but didn't anyone try this out?
This should also indicate which EUDI wallets will require Google or Apple device attestation. My guess is all of them.
For all the talk about digital sovereignty, EU still builds the fundamental element of EU citizenship, the digital ID, on American companies. Baffling.