From Reclaim the Net, September 15:
The EU is running a digital ID pilot
A collaboration with banks and tech companies.
The EU is preparing to launch a bloc-wide digital IDs pilot that uses the EU Digital Wallet. The pilot is a collaboration with banks and technology partners, including those providing biometrics-based facial recognition.
The EU already has its Digital Identity Wallet Consortium, but this is a new one, led by the Nordic-Baltic eID Project (NOBID).
The newly formed consortium is joined by six countries – Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, and Norway – four of which are NOBID members – and has presented a proposal that it says will allow for a large-scale, cross-border payments pilot that aims to “effortlessly” combine identity and payments....
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