Certification of the EU Digital Identity Wallets and its Challenges in the Era of AI

The EU Digital Identity Wallets represents a pivotal step in the European Union's efforts to establish secure, interoperable, and user-centric digital identity solutions. The contribution is aimed at identifying and proposing suitable mitigation for the main legal challenges related to the implementation of this new solution to establish a secure and interoperable digital identity. Certification is considered a crucial process to ensure compliance especially with privacy and security regulations. The approach based on national certification schemes, as mandated by the European Commission, is likely to lead to diverse interpretations of standards and adequate security measures. Fragmentation of the cybersecurity certification schemes, pursuant to framework established under the Cybersecurity Act, would likely limit their utilisation across EU. Moreover, the relentless progress towards adoption of innovative AI solutions leads us to consider potential future role of AI with regard to the digital identity verification processes. In the contribution, we assess the above-stated challenges for the design of EU Digital Identity Wallet certification schemes and propose suitable mitigation strategy.