By the end of 2026, every EU country must legally offer citizens a European Digital Identity Wallet. This smartphone app holds a person’s government ID, driving licence, diploma, and other verified documents in one place and is designed to work across all 27 EU countries.

Digital rights groups warn the technology and the safeguards meant to protect it are not ready and that the wallet could become exactly the kind of surveillance tool it was designed to prevent.

“We are at maybe 50-60% of the technical standards that are needed to build this wallet,” says Thomas Lohninger, executive director of Austrian digital rights group epicenter.works and…

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