EU Introduces 'Digital Wallet' to Store Official Documents
Voice of America
04 Jun 2021, 04:05 GMT+10
The European Union (EU) Thursday unveiled its plans for a digital ID wallet that would hold all official documents residents would need to allow them access to the information at home or anywhere across the 27-nation bloc.
At a news briefing on the proposal in Brussels, European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager said the European Digital Identity Wallet would be a smartphone app that would let users store electronic forms of identification and other official documents, such as driver's licenses, prescriptions and school diplomas.
Vestager said the plan would enable the bloc's 450 million residents to do anything they would at home - rent an apartment, open a bank account - in any EU member state. She was quick to add that the plan would not be mandatory and that citizens could put as much or as little data in the app as they felt comfortable with.