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Thank you for sharing this. I have been frustrated about the lack of chip and pin for IDs for years. We have had digital IDs in the form of debit/credit card si

Thank you for sharing this. I have been frustrated about the lack of chip and pin for IDs for years. We have had digital IDs in the form of debit/credit card since the 90s, and yet the governments have been agonizingly slow to adopt this (at least to me) painfully obvious idea. So good job Germany!

Sophira 1y ago
Chip and PIN is almost how electronic passports already work - it's just that the 'PIN' is printed in the passport itself, so in order for anybody to communicate with the chip, it has to see the page which has it printed in order to scan for it first.
- BobaFloutist 1y ago
  CA DMV app lets me add my driver's license to my mobile wallet (which works with NFC). Of course, it doesn't eliminate my legal responsibility to carry my driver's license while driving, and while the printed piece of plastic lasts five years and my passport booklet is legal I.D. for 10 years at a time, the mobile driver's license needs to be updated every 30 days.
  - KoolKat23 1y ago
    Why have the digital version of you need the plastic copy still?
numpad0 1y ago
The problem is national security consequences of it. Handing out nation-backed ID card tied to secure identity undermines sovereignty of the nation, because it means Walmart and likes can (illegally) exert political influence by silently or openly classing and discriminating you. It is important that personal ID is only transparent and spoof-proof to legitimate government the individual identifies with, and that soft ID databases that private entities may build have limitations in its completeness. That's not trivial to do right, especially through bureaucratic government processes.