The majority of the Swedish population today uses Kivra. By acquiring Truid takes Kivra to the next step in the development of an identity wallet and thereby strengthens its position as Sweden's largest and safest platform for important things.

The EU's investment in digital identity wallet

The EU is driving the development of a digital identity wallet that aims to give EU citizens greater control over their personal information.

The purpose of the EU Identity Wallet

By collect digital identities and verifiable data securely in a digital wallet strives EU after facilitating cross-border interactions. The identity wallet should be able to be used to store and share different types of digital documents, such as driver's licenses, diplomas and health information..

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Sweden's role in development

IN Sweden Digg has been tasked with developing an identity wallet and managing the rules and requirements that define how private identity wallets should be approved and controlled.

Kivra's vision for the digital identity of the future

Quarrel sees a future where the development of the current service and the identity wallet go hand in hand. To prepare for this development, Kivra has made an asset acquisition of Truid, which means that Truid's product and technology team will become part of Kivra.

A secure platform for sharing data

– We already see a growing need for people to be able to share their information on their own terms. Kivra and the identity wallet go hand in hand, and with Truid's expertise, we are accelerating the development of making Kivra a platform for sharing data in a safely way"This is an exciting step towards the digital everyday life of the future," says Henrik Lönnevi, CEO of Kivra.

The ability to share data via Kivra

Already today, users can choose to share data with trusted parties in Kivra. This is done by companies having the opportunity to ask their customers to share data via Quarrel – where the user chooses whether to share the requested data. This is an area that is growing and is fully in line with the EU's development of identity wallets.

More about digital identity wallet

EU Identity Wallet is a digital solution that aims to give EU citizens increased control over their personal information.

Regulations and future development

The initiative is based on a revision of eIDAS Regulation, which aims to create a harmonised framework for digital identity in the EU.

Read more on DIGG's website: European digital identity and on the European Commission's website on digital identity and identity wallets: EU Digital Identity Wallet.