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Union adopts the European Digital Identity Wallet revision

Dated 11 April 2024: Union adopts the European Digital Identity Wallet revision. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

Sources: [1][2]

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The file sat across Breton’s industrial-digital shop. Adoption is co-legislative. A wallet statute is not a working ID already on every phone.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Thierry Breton

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.45 · verified

    Internal-market services ran parts of the file. Co-legislators enacted. Member states still issue wallets.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactUnion adopts the European Digital Identity Wallet revision
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 11 April 2024 · verified

    A Union identity wallet can concentrate identity data and relying-party access, with a lag through national apps.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — EU digital identity walletReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 — European Digital IdentityEUR-Lex · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 revises eIDAS toward a European Digital Identity Wallet.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorThierry Breton
  2. contributed toFactUnion adopts the European Digital Identity Wallet revision
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Union adopts the European Digital Identity Wallet revision. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/eu-breton-eidas-2024

https://factrail.ai/facts/eu-breton-eidas-2024

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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