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Category: e-ID and Beta-ID > General information about the e-ID
The e-ID is the state-recognised electronic identity credential of Switzerland. It is an additional, free offer alongside the physical identity card. The e-ID allows you to prove your identity in both the analogue and digital worlds.
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Current issues: When you present your physical ID today, the person verifying it sees more information about you than necessary. Online, a copy of the entire ID is often required. What happens to your data afterwards is beyond your control.
New solution: With the e-ID, users have full control over their data. During a verification, they see exactly which information is being requested and can approve or decline the request. Only the data necessary for the specific purpose is disclosed.
Example: For an age check, the verifying person learns neither your exact date of birth nor your age, but only whether you have reached the required minimum age.
Examples of what you can do with the e-ID in the future:
- Provide proof of age
- Open a bank account
- Request a criminal record extract
More information about the e-ID
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No. The e-ID is an identity credential, i.e. proof of identity. With AGOV, the federal government offers an authority login that can also be used by cantons and municipalities. The e-ID will be used as a particularly secure means of access to AGOV.
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Yes. The federal government plays the central role in the new e-ID. It designs the trust infrastructure necessary for the e-ID's operation, develops it itself or buys parts of it on the market. The federal government operates the infrastructure and is the sole issuer of the e-ID.
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The new state e-ID will be issued by the federal government. The draft law that was rejected in the referendum in 2021 provided that private companies would have issued the e-ID. With the new e-ID, data storage is decentralised, which improves data protection and data economy and guarantees users the greatest possible control over their data. In addition, an e-ID infrastructure will be established that can be used to issue other digital credentials.
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No, emergency legislation is an extraordinary instrument of the Federal Council. The Federal Council may only resort to its constitutional emergency law powers in absolutely exceptional situations, if safeguarding the interests of the country so requires or to counter serious disruptions to public order or internal or external security that have occurred or are imminent (Art. 184 para. 3 and Art. 185 para. 3 of the Federal Constitution). Emergency legislation is only used when the Federal Council is unable to fulfil its duty of protection towards the population by other means. Declaring the use of the e-ID to be binding would be disproportionate in terms of fundamental and human rights. It is not clear why exclusively digital identification should prove necessary in any given situation. It must remain possible to identify individuals without an e-ID.
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