No need to keep your identity card in your wallet: you can now keep it in digital form in your smartphone thanks to an application to easily authenticate yourself if necessary.
A real sesame of daily life, your identity card accompanies you everywhere. Whether for a trip, an administrative registration or simply to justify your identity, it is essential. But how many times have you forgotten it? How many times have you searched your bag to find it? And what about the endless administrative procedures that you have pushed, for lack of having it on hand? Not to mention that when you have to send a copy, it can be diverted or stolen, and your personal information is then found in malicious hands. Fortunately, there is a very simple way to dematerialize your identity card on your smartphone, all in a secure manner.
To do this, you must go through the France Identity mobile application, available for free on the Play Store for Android and the iPhone App Store. Developed by the government as part of the action plan for the digital transformation of the State and associated with the Sgin, the digital identity guarantee service, it allows you to prove your identity without disclosing private data, while Having the document always on you.
To scan your identity card, you must be of age and have a smartphone compatible with NFC turning at least Android 8 or iOS 16 and a new identity card – the model in credit card format, distributed since August 2021, which incorporates a chip and a QR code. You just need to download the France Identity application, enter the six digits at the bottom right of your card and scan your NFC chip with your smartphone. You just have to create a certified account by identifying with FranceConnect and defining your six -digit personal code. And now, your identity card has been scanned and placed in your France Identity application! Note that you can also add your digital driving license.
Having your identity card directly on your smartphone gives you many advantages. First of all, this allows you to prove your identity without holding the physical version with you. In addition, France Identity assures you against identity theft and protects your personal data. Indeed, through FranceConnect, you can easily identify yourself with more than a thousand online, public or private services (Ameli, Taxes, La Poste, Maprimerenov ‘, CAF, France Labor, Yris, MSA, etc.), This strengthens the safety of the connection by proving your online identity, without having to create several identifiers and passwords. It is therefore more secure, since it limits the risks of hacking and phishing attack.
The application also allows you to create single -use identity documents, which in particular justifies a particular attribute – like your majority – without revealing all the other personal information contained in your identity card. In addition to preventing identity theft, France Identity also allows you to avoid transmitting copies of your identity card to third parties, which could use them for fraudulent purposes. Not to mention that your data is encrypted and stored in the NFC chip – this technology is the same as that used for mobile payment or for certain public transport – of your card and in the secure memory of your smartphone, which again makes their very difficult hacking.
Please note that the scanning of your identity card is optional, you will always have a physical version. It should also be noted that the centralization of personal information can attract hackers, wishing to get their hands on it. In addition, if your phone were to be stolen, it could become problematic and compromise access to sensitive services, such as your social security insured profile for example. And that’s without counting on the problem of the digital divide, not everyone being comfortable with tech …