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Yep. All European Union countries are eventually going to use electronic IDs (eID) with Smartchips that can be read by a Smart Card reader. A number of governm

Yep. All European Union countries are eventually going to use electronic IDs (eID) with Smartchips that can be read by a Smart Card reader. A number of governments already use eIDs, and have elaborate databases for citizens, such as Croatia. See: https://gov.hr/en https://gov.hr/en There are also other forms of government facilitated authentication (e.g. electronic signatures or citizen services), and depending on the level of security needed. It’s amazing that the United States does not have this functionality, which would be useful moving from state to state. I guess the US passport card is the closest example, but it is useless except as identification.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> It’s amazing that the United States does not have this functionality, which would be useful moving from state to state. The US does have it, used in both passports and “Enhanced Driver's Licenses” meeting the federal requirements for that label. I think only a couple states currently issue EDLs. > I guess the US passport card is the closest example, but it is useless except as identification. Almost any place that requires government ID, IME, accepts passports; they aren't at all useless as ID.
- disabled 5y ago
  The point I was trying to make is that in many countries in Europe, we can use our electronic IDs to do a lot of things in everyday life that cannot be done online in the US. You can see all of the services we can access in Croatia here: https://gov.hr/en/catalogue-of-services/10 https://gov.hr/en/catalogue-of-services/10 The eIDs also require a biometric picture of your face and 2 fingerprints, which are encoded into the card, as required by European Union regulation. When I am ready to I can even apply for my European Engineer license online on that portal, with my eID using a Smartcard reader on PC (highest level of security for authentication of credentials).
cromka 5y ago
>All European Union countries are eventually going to use electronic IDs (eID) with Smartchips that can be read by a Smart Card reader. As far as I know there's a deadline for it and we just passed it.

dragonwriter 5y ago

> It’s amazing that the United States does not have this functionality, which would be useful moving from state to state. The US does have it, used in both passports and “Enhanced Driver's Licenses” meeting the federal requirements for that label. I think only a couple states currently issue EDLs. > I guess the US passport card is the closest example, but it is useless except as identification. Almost any place that requires government ID, IME, accepts passports; they aren't at all useless as ID.

disabled 5y ago
The point I was trying to make is that in many countries in Europe, we can use our electronic IDs to do a lot of things in everyday life that cannot be done online in the US. You can see all of the services we can access in Croatia here: https://gov.hr/en/catalogue-of-services/10 https://gov.hr/en/catalogue-of-services/10 The eIDs also require a biometric picture of your face and 2 fingerprints, which are encoded into the card, as required by European Union regulation. When I am ready to I can even apply for my European Engineer license online on that portal, with my eID using a Smartcard reader on PC (highest level of security for authentication of credentials).

cromka 5y ago

>All European Union countries are eventually going to use electronic IDs (eID) with Smartchips that can be read by a Smart Card reader. As far as I know there's a deadline for it and we just passed it.