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In Denmark we have electronic national ID with one-time tokens on a small piece of paper. You can use for: government interaction, banks, utilities, health rec
by jopsen 9y ago
In Denmark we have electronic national ID with one-time tokens on a small piece of paper.
You can use for: government interaction, banks, utilities, health records, and lots of other things.
They also made a digital secure mailbox, where you can receive PDFs from government, banks, utilities, doctors, etc. You can also send replies.
It sucks that all of this is point-and-click web apps without a standardized API. I'm sure other countries have similar things, but most implementations are probably snowflakes.
Whereas email is universally integrated everywhere, it's not trusted for personal sensitive information.
I hope one day secure webauthn and secure email will replace all these snowflakes. But as much as I hate to admit it, the non-standard walked gardens does do a better job, with higher security than the old paper world ever did.
- mercurial 8y agoI don't know what it's worth in terms of security, but it's really convenient. And Danish bureaucracy is the smoothest I've seen yet.
- foepys 8y ago> They also made a digital secure mailbox, where you can receive PDFs from government, banks, utilities, doctors, etc. You can also send replies. Does that mean one has to constantly monitor this mailbox and is liable if something is left unanswered?
- jopsen 8y agoYes! This sucks... You can get text or email notifications. Like I said, I hate these systems with passion, but as much as I hate to admit it they are more secure than paper ever was. Probably also more convenient, as things moving fast compared to snailmail.
- icebraining 8y agoPortugal has the same, though it's optional. And you can login with your national ID card, which is a smartcard. And for bills, you can pay them through the site. Yes, it's absolutely a snowflake as well, but considering the low amount of messages, I'm not sure that's much of a problem.