PID - Verification
for easy KYC
What is the PID ?
Person Identification Data (PID) is a set of attributes consisting of personal attributes, such as name, surname or date of birth, used primarily for identification purposes, such as Know Your Customer (KYC) processes. Its purpose is to identify a natural person or legal entity or object while accessing online or offline services. These attributes are provided by an authentic source, such as registers of municipalities and can be derived from eIDAS notified eID schemes. In Germany this may be the physical eID.
However only authorised PID providers can issue PIDs into the European Digital Identity Wallet(EUDI-Wallet). PID providers are trusted organisations defined by the member states and can be the same organisations that currently officially issue ID documents. Every member state is obligated to provide a PID as well as an EUDI-Wallet.
Organisations that are required by EU or national law to identify their customers (KYC), must accept the PID from the EUDI-Wallet for identification purposes.
Source: EU 2024/1183 Art. 5f (2)
Benefits for your organsiation
The PID offers several advantages over current electronic identification methods such as eID and video identification. In the context of the European Digital Identity Wallet, it enables organisations to enroll users in KYC processes within seconds. This saves time and money and eliminates the need for third-party identification offers. At the same time, it allows the organisation to request other documents that can streamline and complement the KYC process, such as driving licences, proof of income, employment registration and more.
PIDs adhere to high KYC compliance standards with the level of assurance high across the EU, ensuring a high level of security and trust for both the organisation and the user. Finally the mandatory acceptance of the PID and EUDI-Wallets as identification means security for organisations when strategizing and planning to build use cases based on them.
Process efficiency
Cost reduction
EU-wide interoperability
eIDAS compliant
High level of security and trust
No need for third-party KYC offer
Use for KYC and other credential based processes
Easily issue and verify
PID credentials
Issuance
In order to issue a PID to an EUDI-Wallet, the attributes of the PID must be derived from an authentic source. A PID provider uses the information provided by the register and issues the valid PID to the user's EUDI-Wallet, given the person has been identified.
Verification
Once having a valid PID in the EUDI-Wallet, a user can easily identify himself to an organisation to access digital services.
Organisations can use an EUDI-Wallet Connector software, such as the one provided by Lissi, to request and verify the PID data. This streamlines KYC processes with a high level of assurance.
While the issuance of the PID into the users EUDI-Wallet is a one time process, use-cases with a high level of assurance might still require the user to provide an additional security aspect, such as the physical ID card.
eIDAS 2 credentials
EAAs
QEAAs
PID
EUDI-Wallet conform
EU-wide standardisation
Support selective disclosure
Attributes
Attributes that require a moderate trust level
Non-identification attributes, that require high trust level
Identification attributes of a person
Security
Moderate security
High level of security and assurance
Highest level of security and assurance
Data source
Derived from reliable source in the attributes domain
Derived from an authentic source
Authentic source, which is authorised by a member state
Validated by
Validated by primary instance of the attribute
Validated by qualified trust service provider
Validated by qualified trust service provider
Basis for
All services that only need moderate trust levels
Basis for all high trust services outside the identification scope
Basis for all identification services
Use cases
Employee card, student-IDs or customer cards
Tax data, mobile driver licence
Identification (Know-your-customer)
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