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Estonia solves the problems of identity security on the Internet. The three-year FutureID project funded by the European Union focuses on solving the identity security issues on the Internet. 18 partners from 11 countries participate in the project besides Estonia.

Forte went to become acquainted with the printing house where our ID-cards get our faces attached to them.

Starting from today, all interested persons can join a customer loyalty program of Prisma Peremarket called Prisma Konto, granting a bonus of up to 5% on purchases. The system is ID-card based and free for all customers.

Currently over 98 million documents are already signed with digital signatures, and this number is only increasing. The available statistics allows concluding that one of the Estonian ID card holders will put one hundred millionth digital signature already in the first half of December

There is now a new list of different e-services which can be logged in with ID-card and Mobile-ID. In addition to banks, governmental institutions and public services there are many other e-service providers and useful websites. Click here to see the list.

The Police and Border Guard Board (PBGB) invites people whose ID-card was issued last year to PBGB service points to renew the electronic component of their ID card. People who do not use their card for electronic purposes do not have to renew the document.

You may have heard people claiming "digital signing is great, but what will I do with loads of digital documents afterwards? In the end it will all be way too expensive!". One of the common myths is that after a decade or so, older digital documents can not be opened with the new programmes and their maintenance is costly.

Under the pan-European identification and authentication development project STORK 2.0, in which also Estonia participates,  questionnaires were carried out in 19 countries to ensure the maximum implementation of the new solutions. Take part in the questionnaire and express your opinion about eID in Estonia.

 As of today there are 128,040 people who have registered an e-mail account at the Estonian online state portal eesti.ee . Approximately half of them, 55,780, have subscribed to various e-notifications.