{"id":9741,"date":"2021-06-05T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T17:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9741"},"modified":"2021-06-05T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T17:04:21","slug":"the-eus-digital-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9741","title":{"rendered":"The EU’s Digital Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyday I still forlornly check to see if Florida has gotten around to issuing their promised digital driver\u2019s licenses but there\u2019s still no joy. Instead, I just read that the EU is implementing a digital wallet<\/a> that will hold all the official documents that an EU resident requires.<\/p>\n

While the US can\u2019t manage to get even a single state\u2019s driver\u2019s license implemented as a digital document, the EU s getting 27 countries to provide digital representations of a large number of necessary documents. To be fair, the EU digital wallet is still in the planning stage and is not expected to become available until at least 2022. And, of course, it\u2019s much harder to do this sort of thing in the US. It was all we could do to standardize on Real ID<\/a> and, as it is, there are still some holdouts.<\/p>\n

To be sure, there are potential surveillance problems. This other article<\/a> on the plan describes some of problems the EU digital wallet will have to solve. Florida\u2019s Thales based digital license<\/a> seems pretty good on privacy but good security hygiene demands constant vigilance. Still, digital IDs and documents are the future and there really isn\u2019t any rational reason to drag our feet in getting them implemented. It\u2019s nice that the EU is leading the way. Now if Florida would only start offering theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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