The European Union is working on a versatile “digital wallet”: a single application for the DNI, as well as for the driver’s license, payment methods and other documents that will allow us to identify ourselves at all times just by carrying our own mobile phone. will be the new app to carry the DNI on your mobile Although most mobile phones already allow you to pay through them in shops and establishments and although in Spain it is possible to have the DNI on your smartphone, it is now the European Union when it announces being betting on digitization.To this end, the EU has announced the forthcoming launch of an application that will act as a wallet for identity cards (DNI), driving licenses and digital documents, common to the 27 member states beyond the movements “individual »That each country has done in recent years. And it is that the digital identification systems of different countries are often not compatible with each other, and the adoption rate n among populations remains relatively low. But not only that: many governments have not yet presented their own project. Hence the idea of accelerating the digitization process through a European initiative common to all states.The application designed by the EU, according to portals such as Engadget and Financial Times, should be perfectly compatible with the main biometric authentication systems available on smartphones, from fingerprint to facial recognition, based on the FaceID model.However, and despite the functionality that is intended for it, the EU digital wallet will not be in any way mandatory, but will offer a number of benefits, in addition to the fact that the European institutions want to prohibit companies from collecting the data. generated by the application.The application will be versatile and will be able to cover a wide range of services and uses: from remote car rental, perhaps while planning a trip to another Member State, to opening bank accounts, through the use of of public administration services. Returning to the example of car rental: the application could even serve as a digital key to access the vehicle, without the need for long waits. It was in September 2020 when the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, already advanced that they were working in this type of system, but it was only yesterday when he revealed that the launch will be imminent, assuring: “We want to offer Europeans a new digital identity. An identity that guarantees trust and protects users online. We are about to present our proposal. It will allow everyone to control their identity online and interact with governments and businesses across the EU. ‘
