Via App Wallet Gov.grwhich includes digital copies of police ID and driver’s licenseSince yesterday, citizens can make transactions with banks and them mobile and fixed companies. This became possible after the adoption of the necessary Joint Ministerial Decision regulating two issues. Identification with Gov.gr wallet at banks and telecommunications service providers and issuance of an identity document in cases where banks, mobile and landline operators are required to keep a photocopy of the police identity card. “From today, citizens can use the Gov.gr wallet in their transactions with banks and mobile and landline companies,” the Minister of Public and Digital Governance said yesterday in a Twitter post. Kyriakos Pierrakakis.

What exactly is a process? As soon as someone scans a citizen’s QR code through the Gov.gr Wallet app, the latter is notified to give consent to the controller to verify their information. After the check is approved, a six-digit code appears on the application screen, which the citizen must dictate or show to the verifier, who, in turn, enters it on his device. After the process is completed, then and only then the digital copy of the data is displayed once and only on the controller device, without the possibility of saving.

In addition, for those transactions with banks and telecommunications companies, it was still necessary to keep a photocopy of the police identity card, the possibility of issuing a digital document is being established. To do this, an employee of a bank or provider, after identifying a citizen through the Gov.gr Wallet application, enters the number of an individual’s identity card into a specially configured system of the organization and requests the issuance of an identity card. document. The citizen is then notified of the request in Gov.gr Wallet. After his consent, a six-digit code appears on the application screen, which he must dictate or show to the employee. That, in turn, registers it in the system. The document, which is issued automatically, has a unique code and a QR code and will be stored in the information systems of the above persons under their own responsibility for as long as necessary.