{"slug": "eu-digital-identity-wallet", "name": "EU Digital Identity Wallet", "category": "security", "category_name": "Security and passwords", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 8, "warners": 1, "score": 2.655, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-12-30", "latest": "2026-10-24", "why": "The EU is working on a actual privacy-preserving initiative", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 4, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "The EU is working on a actual privacy-preserving initiative", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "europa.eu", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["EU Digital Identity Wallet", "EuConform"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 751310720, "item_id": 46956920, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956920", "by": "littlecranky67", "date": "2026-02-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The EU is working on a actual privacy-preserving initiative", "excerpt": "The EU is working on a actual privacy-preserving initiative [0] that allows owners of ID wallets to verify their age, without their actual age or personal data being transmitted. The standard and reference implementations are open source on GitHub. Yet everybody screams uploading IDs and total government surveillance. [0]: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EUDIGITALIDENTITYWALLET/pages/9304509", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"}, {"id": 744932048, "item_id": 46558253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558253", "by": "dmitrygr", "date": "2026-01-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the name.", "excerpt": "\"EuConform\" <- I love the name. Not sure if you meant it as it reads, but I love it.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: EuConform \u2013 Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)"}, {"id": 742919361, "item_id": 46432460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432460", "by": "thevania", "date": "2025-12-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i hope it will be part of the digital wallet initiative", "excerpt": "can't wait for digital euro https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/19/single-currency-council-agrees-position-on-the-digital-euro-and-on-strengthening-the-role-of-cash/ https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2025/html/ecb.sp251219~fd2fee081a.en.html i hope it will be part of the digital wallet initiative: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet there is an active discussion there on N", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 779756880, "item_id": 48734805, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734805", "by": "MyMemoryfails", "date": "2026-06-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "EUID is not anonymous!", "excerpt": "Everytime EUID mentioned, people forget that EUID is not anonymous! EUID has \"provider/verifier\" endpoint which communicates with your website to inform you are indeed 18+ age. Link: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-srv-verifier-endpoint The github page has graph how it works. So Government can track your accounts via IP,Timestamps, Token (if website saves it). Just incase you dont bother visiting t", "context": "", "use_case": "age verification", "switched_from": "", "story": "European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["age verification", "ai act risk classification"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220913", "title": "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730729", "title": "European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902486", "title": "Ask HN: Is anyone working on Gov Digital IDs or have implementation docs / FOSS", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169864", "title": "Ask HN: How are you handling EU AI Act compliance as a developer?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085483", "title": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945663", "title": "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"warn": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 803537904, "item_id": 50221119, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50221119", "by": "anonymous908213", "date": "2026-10-24", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The national [EU Digital Identity] Wallet does not need an account/login.", "excerpt": "https://eudi-wallet.gov.de/en/faq?utm > Do I need a Google or Apple account? > The national [EU Digital Identity] Wallet does not need an account/login. Users can use the wallet without creating any account/login. Independently of this, the App Store and Google Play Store require an account for the user to install any application. My original comment has proven extremely controversial, pingponging +-5 votes. I unders", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"}, {"id": 779756880, "item_id": 48734805, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734805", "by": "MyMemoryfails", "date": "2026-06-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "EUID is not anonymous!", "excerpt": "Everytime EUID mentioned, people forget that EUID is not anonymous! EUID has \"provider/verifier\" endpoint which communicates with your website to inform you are indeed 18+ age. Link: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-srv-verifier-endpoint The github page has graph how it works. So Government can track your accounts via IP,Timestamps, Token (if website saves it). Just incase you dont bother visiting t", "context": "", "use_case": "age verification", "switched_from": "", "story": "European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple"}, {"id": 766545968, "item_id": 47909123, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909123", "by": "mindcrash", "date": "2026-04-26", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "EU architecture and implementation (including code) here", "excerpt": "EU architecture and implementation (including code) here: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is anyone working on Gov Digital IDs or have implementation docs / FOSS"}, {"id": 757582400, "item_id": 47348900, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348900", "by": "guillermollopis", "date": "2026-03-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "EuConform is open source and does risk classification", "excerpt": "The practical answer is: start with classification. Most developers jump straight to \"what documentation do I need?\" but the first question is whether your system is even high-risk under Annex III. If it is, you're looking at Annex IV technical documentation \u2014 which covers everything from training data governance to accuracy metrics to human oversight mechanisms. It's roughly equivalent to producing a detailed design", "context": "", "use_case": "AI Act risk classification", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How are you handling EU AI Act compliance as a developer?"}, {"id": 753373376, "item_id": 47085836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085836", "by": "yoavm", "date": "2026-02-20", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Sounds like the EU Digital Identity Wallet project", "excerpt": "Sounds like the EU Digital Identity Wallet project: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EUDIGITALIDENTITYWALLET/overview", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"}, {"id": 751310720, "item_id": 46956920, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956920", "by": "littlecranky67", "date": "2026-02-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The EU is working on a actual privacy-preserving initiative", "excerpt": "The EU is working on a actual privacy-preserving initiative [0] that allows owners of ID wallets to verify their age, without their actual age or personal data being transmitted. The standard and reference implementations are open source on GitHub. Yet everybody screams uploading IDs and total government surveillance. [0]: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EUDIGITALIDENTITYWALLET/pages/9304509", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"}, {"id": 744932048, "item_id": 46558253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558253", "by": "dmitrygr", "date": "2026-01-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the name.", "excerpt": "\"EuConform\" <- I love the name. Not sure if you meant it as it reads, but I love it.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: EuConform \u2013 Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)"}, {"id": 742919361, "item_id": 46432460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432460", "by": "thevania", "date": "2025-12-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i hope it will be part of the digital wallet initiative", "excerpt": "can't wait for digital euro https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/19/single-currency-council-agrees-position-on-the-digital-euro-and-on-strengthening-the-role-of-cash/ https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2025/html/ecb.sp251219~fd2fee081a.en.html i hope it will be part of the digital wallet initiative: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet there is an active discussion there on N", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden"}]}