Fun fact: when my country transitioned to a new public authentication app, the default way was to use your passport to register. My passport was expired, though, so I had to show up in person with my birth certificate and social security card equivalent.

To get my birth certificate, I had to show up at the local office with, you guessed it, my passport.

Lucky for me that they accepted it in spite of being expired (none of the pertinent information such as my face, name and birth date had expired, after all), or I would probably be trapped in the loop to this day, years later.

[–] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 29 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Ohh, that reminds me of when I moved to Sweden. Their digital ID, bankID, is as the name suggests issued by your bank, not the government, even though it is used for all official authentication. And that includes... you guessed it, creating a bank account. So that was a real chicken and egg situation where it seemed impossible to be properly integrated into the Swedish system.

[–] Sprokes@jlai.lu 18 points 10 months ago

I think you have the situation everywhere. At one time in France they ask you for your bank account details to see that you have funds so that they give an ID. But the bank will refuse to open you an account without an ID. So it will depend on the agent handling your request.

[–] liquidparasyte@pawb.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why do y'all in Europe have your bank manage your legal ID? Seems a bit backwards

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 2 points 10 months ago

We don't. We show banks picture ID to prove that we are who we say we are. That picture ID is usually our passport or driver's license, neither of which is managed by the bank.

[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Reminds me of the first days of BankID here in Norway. To get my new BankID to work with my current bank, I had to log in with, you guessed it, a BankID allready configured to my bank. Took a few weeks talking to the bank, showing up in person and queueing with others with the same problem before the bank realized they've made a mistake somewhere

Same happened when the code thingy the bank sent me ran out of batteries. I went to the bank and asked for a new one. Not possible, they said. I had to contact the main branch, and they would send me new one. It would only take one week or so. I had to pay a bill that day, and asked if I could open it to replace the batteries since there was visible screw with ordinary heads. They said that was illegal and hacking, and that I must replace it. On my way home I opened it, and bought the exact same batteries from a shop, and replaced them. Worked perfectly!

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hi neighbor! waves across Øresund

Yeah, I'm a big fan of Scandinavian style government (unlike the current governments of both of our countries, it would seem) in general, but sometimes the bureaucracy can get a little bit ridiculous 😂

[–] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Bare rolig, jeg er tilbage på den rigtige side af Sundet nu 😉

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

It seems like most countries have some variation of this issue. When I had to apply for government assistance here in Australia, there was a whole debacle because as I discovered, I don't actually have a middle name but rather 2 first names because my birth information was filled in incorrectly. So that caused issues because all 3 of the IDs they demanded listed different information. My student ID didn't list my second name at all, my learner driver permit initialised it, and my birth certificate listed it in full.

Then my government service account messed things up too, because certain services have my 2nd name listed as either a middle name, or just a second first name so they decided that because I have different government services linked in "different names" I must be committing fraud

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