In Holland the banks are trying to introduce their own id system too, called iDIN. But luckily the state system Digi-ID is still available too.
Banks have enough data already, plus, why make a group of business arbiters of ones online identity?
100% agreed :)
> Who even fame up with that?
Guess who.. The banks did.
> Why bring banks into the mix? We've had DigiD for what, also almost 20 years now? Why replace something that works well? iDIN doesn't even fix the main problem, which is being usable in other EU countries.
It fixes the main problem for the banks which is that they were not involved. With iDIN they add another "selling point" for themselves, can sit at the table with government services as a provider and can monitor our behaviour more deeply.
It makes no sense as DigiD has worked OK (as a Dutch person living abroad it's certainly not perfect, especially the SMS 2FA option requirement for a Dutch number is super annoying, and the process of requesting access is a real PITA). At least there's an app now.
> Banks have enough data already, plus, why make a group of business arbiters of ones online identity?
It's a bad idea all around but the VVD government embraced it because they love business participation in everything.
That said, people do not like the wait for the manual check, and the app itself seem to get a lot of hate.