e-ID Cards: When are they used?

Thanks to these three functions of identification, authentication, and signature, this e-ID card offers many possible applications:

Identification and authentication or physical access control

 

Online access control
Every year, citizens must complete many administrative formalities that always involve some kind of identification phase:
  • Officials must verity the identity of the claimant,
  • They must transcribe or encode the data,
  • The claimant must sign their request.

Thanks to e-ID, these operations can now be carried out in a matter of seconds.
 

   These applications take place remotely and therefore require a computer, a card and an Internet connection. Just like with physical access control, it is important to be able to filter access to certain Internet sites, applications and databases

> Applications:
 

  

> Applications:
 
  • Local administrations,
  • Police stations,
  • Post offices,
  • Banks,
  • The social sector,
  • Material or vehicle rental services,
  • Transports (in Estonia),
  • Healthcare and hospitals in Malta, Belgium, Italy etc.

 

  
  • Internet sites requiring specific access control (home working, restricted user communities, secure email),
  • Restricting children’s access to certain sites (forums, online gambling),
  • Access to ones databases and online dossiers.

> Advantages:

  

> Advantages:
  • Saves time: ID operations are carried out much faster and more efficiently, even at physical counters,
  • For physical controls, the visual control takes place as with a traditional card and a customs official can check the photo stored on the chip,
  • Quality and uniformity of information gathered: significantly fewer input errors,
  • Economy and ecology: a reduction in the amount of paper used and less paper filing.
  
  • Simplification and ease of use: a reduction in the number of means of identification,
  • Increased Internet security,
  • Better protection for minors.