AK EUROPA has joined a coalition of digital rights and consumer protection organisations – initiated by epicenter.works and European Digital Rights (EDRi) – in writing to the European Commission to raise serious concerns over the fourth batch of Implementing Acts under the eIDAS Regulation. The signatories warn that several provisions not only fail to resolve previously identified shortcomings, but risk to undermine core protections enshrined in the regulation itself.

The European Digital Identity Wallet is a forthcoming EU-wide system that will allow citizens to store and share identity credentials such as their national ID, driving licence, or age via a smartphone app. It does not yet exist, but the Wallet is already being put forward as a key tool for a privacy-sensitive age verification online. Thus, the decisions taken today on how to technically implement the regulation, are of high importance. The co-signatories, including AK EUROPA, therefore urge the Commission to ensure the implementing acts are brought into full alignment with the eIDAS Regulation before adoption.

For background information on the eID wallet see the analysis by Epicenter.works: Five problems the Commission must fix in the EU Wallet