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European Commission vice-president in charge of "A Europe fit for the digital age" Margrethe Vestager participates in a press conference on establishing a European Digital Identity Framework at the European Commission in Brussels on June 3, 2021. Stephanie Lecocq/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
My wallet is stuffed with cards. I have a driver’s licence, firearms licence, health-care card, social insurance card, and several credit and debit cards. It’s annoying keeping up with the expiry dates on all these cards and it can be a catastrophe if they are lost. It tempts a person to embrace the concept of some kind of universal digital ID, and we have governments eager to set up such a system.
