Fun fact: when my country transitioned to a new public authentication app, the default way was to use your passport to register. My passport was expired, though, so I had to show up in person with my birth certificate and social security card equivalent.

To get my birth certificate, I had to show up at the local office with, you guessed it, my passport.

Lucky for me that they accepted it in spite of being expired (none of the pertinent information such as my face, name and birth date had expired, after all), or I would probably be trapped in the loop to this day, years later.

[–] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Ohh, that reminds me of when I moved to Sweden. Their digital ID, bankID, is as the name suggests issued by your bank, not the government, even though it is used for all official authentication. And that includes... you guessed it, creating a bank account. So that was a real chicken and egg situation where it seemed impossible to be properly integrated into the Swedish system.

[–] liquidparasyte@pawb.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why do y'all in Europe have your bank manage your legal ID? Seems a bit backwards

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 2 points 10 months ago

We don't. We show banks picture ID to prove that we are who we say we are. That picture ID is usually our passport or driver's license, neither of which is managed by the bank.

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