In a world of fake news and the easy digital manipulation of content, knowing that an electronic document really is what it purports to be has never been more important.

[Berlin, 20. September 2017] Der mehrfach ausgezeichnete und zertifizierte SkIDentity-Dienst (https://skidentity.de) hat nun die notwendige Funktionalität für die Umsetzung der eIDAS-Verordnung aktiviert und ermöglicht ab sofort die starke Authentisierung und Identifizierung mit diversen internationalen Ausweisdokumenten.

(2017/07/06) The European Commission announced the launch of the CEF eSignature Trusted List Browser, which is a web application, available online and hosted by the European Commission, enabling anyone to browse Europe's Trusted Lists and look for available trust services in Europe.

(2017/07/05) Open Banking, the UK bank-funded entity mandated by the Competition and Markets Authority to provide new ways for customers to share their financial data with non-bank providers, has released version 1.0.0. of their Access-to-Account-API specification for accounts and transaction information and payments initiation.

(2017/07/04) The eIDAS Cooperation Network is of the opinion that the German eID scheme to be notified meets the requirements of Article 7, Articles 8(1)-(2) for assurance level “high” and 12(1) of the eIDAS Regulation and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1502.

(2017/07/04) During EEMA’s 30th Annual Conference, experts from ecsec outline the path “Towards GDPR, eIDAS and PSD2 as a Service”.