{"id":17465,"date":"2025-01-26T16:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/convenient-or-intrusive-how-poland-has-embraced-digital-id-cards\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:38:03","slug":"convenient-or-intrusive-how-poland-has-embraced-digital-id-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/convenient-or-intrusive-how-poland-has-embraced-digital-id-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From driving licence to local air quality, app offers myriad of features and has been rolled out to little opposition<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/26\/govuk-app-wallet-could-lead-to-mandatory-id-scheme-claim-privacy-groups\">\u2022 Concerns Gov.uk app could lead to \u2018mandatory ID scheme\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much is being said about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/01\/the-guardian-view-on-economic-comparisons-polands-rise-is-not-about-our-faults\">Poland\u2019s economy potentially overtaking Britain by 2030<\/a>, but in some areas Poles are already ahead.<\/p>\n<p>They can produce a digital identity card or driving licence and use an array of public services using a mobile app, mObywatel. When accessing it for the first time, users have to verify their identity by logging into electronic banking, using a digitally enabled physical ID card, or through a special \u201ctrusted profile\u201d online.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/26\/poland-digital-id-cards-e-government-app\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/76a27a365332337a3f70d676d5fb6800133c6506\/0_415_6160_3696\/master\/6160.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=494c9193e628c69bb7321ca65f53212a\" title=\"Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards\" \/>From driving licence to local air quality, app offers myriad of features and has been rolled out to little opposition<br \/>\n\u2022 Concerns Gov.uk app could lead to \u2018mandatory ID scheme\u2019<br \/>\nMuch is being said about Poland\u2019s economy potentially overtaking Britain by 2030, but in some areas Poles are already ahead.<br \/>\nThey can produce a digital identity card or driving licence and use an array of public services using a mobile app, mObywatel. When accessing it for the first time, users have to verify their identity by logging into electronic banking, using a digitally enabled physical ID card, or through a special \u201ctrusted profile\u201d online. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From driving licence to local air quality, app offers myriad of features and has been rolled out to little opposition \u2022 Concerns Gov.uk app could lead to \u2018mandatory ID scheme\u2019 Much is being said about Poland\u2019s economy potentially overtaking Britain by 2030, but in some areas Poles are already ahead. They can produce a digital &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/convenient-or-intrusive-how-poland-has-embraced-digital-id-cards\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}