nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230224-185228-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230224s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230224-185228-0 doi eng 342 23 Schroers, Jessica Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-3741-8123 A Unique Identification Number for Every European Citizen - The Proposal for a European Digital Identity Regulation and What it Entails Schroers, Jessica Verfassungsblog 2023-02-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 3 June 2021, the European Commission issued a proposal for a European Digital Identity Regulation, which seems to not have raised much discussion among legal scholars, even though digital identity raises several fundamental rights implications. The introduction of a unique and persistent identifier may be understandable from a practical point of view, but cannot be accepted due to its risks and the fact that it potentially infringes the German prohibition on general unique identifiers. CC BY-SA 4.0 data protection digital ID digital identifier eidas 2 eidas regulation eIDs Right to Privacy Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/digital-id-eu/ raw object