One more approval needed for EU-government digital identity wallets

The European Union has approved legislation by a wide margin that will give digital ID wallets to its residents so that they don’t have to pay private companies for the software.

The European Digital Identity Framework awaits final approval from the Council of Ministers.

People can use a commercial wallet to identify and authenticate themselves instead, but that software “raises trust, security and privacy concerns” for users, according to a government statement.

As might be expected, the digital identity wallet …

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