In less than four months, Germans should be able to store their data and credentials in a digital wallet on their mobile phones. At an event in the Ministry of Digital Affairs in Berlin, Minister Karsten Wildberger (CDU) has now announced the new name for the project: the project will now be called D-You.
It is very, very important for the project, according to Wildberger, that citizens have control. And for that, transparency about who accesses which data and when is particularly important.
For the launch of the wallet, but also afterwards, the minister hopes for “numerous use cases”. These should come from government agencies on the one hand – because part of the wallet’s benefit is to be achieved, among other things, by digital proofs from public authorities being able to be stored in the wallet. These can be various documents, from fishing licenses to driver’s licenses, to gun permits and school reports. However, different administrative entities are responsible for different proofs, most of which do not come from the federal government. And even there, some ministries are in no hurry to bring the proofs they manage into the wallet. Currently, technical specifications are still missing at the European level on the one hand, and concrete implementation steps at the national level on the other. The delays in the operational process are now referred to as “phases”.
