The existing Norwegian BankID system is now launching a new biometric app to replace the existing interface to access the digital banking system – a new system that will work with all the nation’s banks, but only compatible with some.
This new app also integrates OneSpan security measures to encrypt these digital transactions and help launch the biometric identification, to be used internationally.
Even though Norway is not apart of the European Union, their move is perfectly aligned with the EU’s eIDAS digital ID plans.
Scrive defines what the eIDAS plans entail:
- Electronic identification/eID can refer to:
- an electronic method that “can guarantee the unambiguous identification of a person” (1)
- an individual’s electronically-stored identity data, the digital equivalent of their traditional, physical ID card
- the act of identifying or authenticating oneself in a digital environment
- eID scheme: according to eIDAS, “a system for electronic identification under which electronic identification means are issued to natural or legal persons, or natural persons representing legal persons” (2); schemes have been developed by public organisations, private companies and public-private joint ventures
- eID means: “a material and/or immaterial unit containing person identification data and which is used for authentication for an online service” (3); a specific method for identifying oneself in a digital environment which conforms to an eID scheme and is issued to users by an eID provider; think of it as the citizen-/customer-facing component of an eID ecosystem; examples: the chip-based eID embedded in Germany’s National Identity Card, Belgium’s Itsme mobile app
From a strictly legal standpoint, the eIDAS regulation ensures cross-border access to public services: people and organisations within one EU Member State shall be able to use their own eID means to access public services in other EU Member States (provided those public services offer secure login to their web services as an option to their own citizens).
For example, a French student who wants to attend university in Sweden will not be prevented from accessing and completing the online registration process if she doesn’t have Swedish BankID (the most widely used eID means in Sweden) to authenticate her identity. Under eIDAS, her FrenchConnect eID will be just as valid.
BankID says their system is issued in over 90 banks and 9,000 merchants, actively used by 4.3 million people of the approximately 5.5 million total population.
BankID is, and will continue to remain, a central part of our users’ daily lives.
We are strong believers in creating magic for the users in terms of experience, with as little friction as possible and users feeling safe and secure when using our services. Our trust in OneSpan is based on their proven solutions that ensure we provide the highest level of security to our entire population.
The new app will allow better communication with the users, and the ambition is to develop the app to become a digital identity wallet that offers a range of value-adding services in the future.
Jan Bjerved, head of Norway’s BankID, explained
Biometric Update added, ‘For context, this is not the first time Bjerved teases the use of biometric technologies for authenticating BankID customers. However, back in May, the digital ID expert suggested that the digital ID authentication platform BankID may be replaced with new apps, while the latest announcement by the company suggests a new version of the BankID app instead.’
In a world where the highest levels of assurance are required to establish users’ identities, our partnership with BankID lays the foundation for the future of secure digital identity platforms and unlocks a new world of experiences that can now include cross-border transactions.
Matthew Moynahan, CEO of OneSpan, said
Unrealized by many, Norway is one of the leading nations in the world concerning biometrics, digital IDs, and enhanced data collection and tracking.
In June The WinePress reported that the nation announced they would start to track and datalogue every citizen’s grocery and food purchases – news that was announced not long after BankID published their ambitions to phase out their old banking system, as discussed in this article.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.Revelation 13:16-18
One by one, nations all over the world are laying down the necessary framework needed to get the masses all the more closer to the mark of the beast system, that includes the 6G, “omni-AI,” smart city, social credit, transhumanist systems.
However, most people are not going to jump on the bandwagon. Therefore, they will be forced and coerced into accepting. I believe these artificially created famines, supply chain breakdowns, proxy wars, economic collapse, and energy crises; are all being fomented to get the people so beaten down and withered, they will run to to the government for their “solution” per the “problem” purposefully created.
Be on the lookout for these powerplays to played by next year.
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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