Italy pushes citizens to adopt CIE as SPID digital ID is phased out
Italians who hold the electronic ID card (CIE) have been encouraged to begin activating their digital credentials on them, if…
SPID
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Italians required to switch from paper IDs to eIDs by August 2026
Italy has announced that old paper identity cards will no longer be valid starting August 4th, 2026, with the government…
Italy’s biggest digital ID services provider set to introduce annual fees
A state-backed financial and postal services conglomerate in Italy and the country’s biggest digital ID services provider, Poste Italiane, has…
Italy gets offline digital wallet access as country advances digitalization
Italy is seeing a seismic shift in its civil status registers as it leaves behind analogue, paper-based recording keeping in…
Italian digital identity provider suffers data breach, 5.5M customers affected
InfoCert has had millions of its customers’ personal data stolen and put up for sale. A leading European certification authority…
Italy’s evolving digital ID system illustrates challenges facing EUDI Wallet rollout
Across Europe, digital identity ecosystems are changing, as the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet program rolls out in EU member…
Italy needs to get over security hurdles before digital IT Wallet goes live
Italy is set to launch an electronic wallet to streamline access to the Public System of Digital Identity (SPID) and…
Move over, Armani: Italy’s It Wallet is the digital ID accessory of the season
Bravo to Italy for the forthcoming launch of its digital wallet scheme, clearing the path for a national digital identity…
Italian telco introduces eSIM activation with digital ID
Italian telecommunications firm TIM has made it possible for users of embedded SIMs (eSIMs) on its network to complete the…
Signicat integrates Italy’s national digital ID to enable international use
When you use SPID outside Italy, that’s a milestone. So says the pan-European digital identity service provider, Signicat, which announced…
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