What can I say? German ID app just works on GrapheneOS 🤷

(Although my shitty health insurance company thinks it's not 'secure enough'...)

You have to give a US corporation your details (Google or Apple) to live and work in the UK.

Think about that for a second.

There are always options beyond digital ID where I live. I am minimally inconvenienced for not using it.

My phone is 14 years old, so no modern apps (especially the ones needing extra security) work there. In Ireland, we don't have a digital ID card, but there have been some equivalents:

• During Covid, we had a digital vaccination pass. However, it was possible to request a paper version, which was supposed to be accepted everywhere (it wasn't).
• Due to 2FA, many companies require a phone authenticator. Those companies that provide legally mandated products or services are required to provide an alternative to people without smartphones. For example, when I needed to renew my car insurance and couldn't do it online, the company had a phone number for over the phone renewal.
• There's currently a fight whether one of our airlines can mandate app-only boarding passes, effectively excluding people without modern phones. Since they don't provide essential service that's mandated by law, they argue they should be able to do so.

Norwegian BankID can only be installed via the app store, but it still works if you use the Aurora store and G.Micro.

Though I'd like to advocate publishing the app through an F-Droid repo.

What an uncritical, fluff article. Thanks for posting and asking questions OP. Government control and security concerns are both essential parts of this conversation, utterly overlooked by the article.

France: never used that digital thing.

it's country dependent. here there's multiple digital id providers with different criteria. there's one owned by the largest isp, one owned cooperatively by all the banks, and one owned by the state which very few people use. the bank one is the most popular, and it used to work fine on custom roms. i think that support got worse once they started adding more hardware-backed security.

i don't have the mental energy to fight it at this point, but if i did i'd try to run the state-backed one on sailfish just to see what happens.

Japan apparently has the same problem. It definitely has that probably using a phone to scan the id card to use various services (which is why I run stock android, mostly, with transit passed and banking being the other reasons).

I say apparently because I have zero interest in having the id on my phone itself.

Rooting apparently makes FELICA not work which is super inconvenient in Japan.

If the security implementation relies on device not being compromised it is not secure at all

The current German "Ausweisapp" also works on GrapheneOS.

Swedish BankID and most banking apps work on grapheneos and lineageos. The only exception I know of is Revolut that just refuses to work on grapheneos.