Digital Identity, Data and Payments: The First Year of the European Digital Identity Wallet

Digital identity is gradually becoming a shared layer for public and private services. Beyond logging into a government portal or bank, it is expanding to include proof of entitlement, electronic signatures and other forms of digital verification.

This also increases the importance of privacy protection, fraud prevention and interoperability between individual systems. The key will not be the mere existence of new European infrastructure, but whether it can be connected to services people actually use while preserving users' control over their data.

What should be the core function of the European Digital Identity Wallet? How can we avoid creating yet another isolated solution? And where should the line be drawn between convenience, security and the amount of data users share in a digital transaction?

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