BankID will connect to Sweden Connect, the national e-identification infrastructure run by the Agency for Digital Government (Digg), allowing municipalities, regions and government agencies to offer BankID, Freja+ and the new state-issued SverigeID through a single technical connection.
Digg said Finansiell ID-Teknik, the company behind BankID, will make the connection, and that the two sides must now coordinate a timetable. Once it is done, public bodies with the necessary agreements and a technical connection through OpenID Connect will be able to use all three e-IDs. Digg’s current technical guidance lists BankID as available only through its own relying-party API, not through Sweden Connect.
“It should be easy for public actors to offer secure login in their digital services. By simplifying the technical handling, we create better conditions for more login options and a more accessible digital public administration,” said Anna Eriksson, Digg’s director general.
The move comes weeks before the Swedish Police Authority launches SverigeID on December 1. The state e-ID will sit at the highest security level and will be open to Swedish citizens and people registered as residents in Sweden from the year they turn nine. It is tied to the national ID card and is requested during the visit to the police to get that card, and cards issued before December 1 cannot be used.
Login takes place in a mobile app that needs at least Android 12 or iOS 16. A person without a phone can use someone else’s by entering a code printed on the ID card. Digg says public bodies will initially be able to connect to SverigeID only through Sweden Connect.
Public bodies today often have to build and maintain separate technical solutions for each e-ID they want to offer. Under Digg’s authorization system for electronic identification, organizations that sign up must offer all the e-IDs in the system within three months of joining and starting to use the services, and a newly added e-ID must generally be usable within three months of becoming available. New rules taking effect on December 1 also require public bodies to be able to accept more approved e-IDs in their digital services.
BankID users do not need to take any action, and BankID will continue to work as it does today.
Sources: Digg, Metro Mode, Nyheter24
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
