Denmark shifts to MitID as legacy digital ID becomes inactive at midnight, Nov. 1

NemID, Denmark's national digital ID system, will stop working tonight at midnight, completing the nation's shift to the more secure MitID system.

The Agency for Digital Government notes that 98 percent of its citizens over the age of 15 have already migrated to the new MitID system, which was first introduced at the end of 2021. Only 31,149 have been active on the outgoing NemID system within the past six months, and only 11,493 were active in October up …

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