All citizens having equal access to all public services such as 1177.se, Arbetsförmedlingen, Polisen, Skatteverket and many, many more is finally becoming a reality. Further, not offering all available login options such as Freja may be against the law.
A new proposal is coming based on the government’s ongoing inquiry into e-identification in Sweden. According to it, it shall become a legal requirement for public enterprises to offer login with all state-approved e-IDs. Currently, state-approved e-IDs in Sweden are both BankID and Freja, with the government’s own e-identification to be launched at a later date.
A Huge Thank You
Without your incredible support in our fight for digital inclusion, this probably would not have become a reality.
That is why we are sending a huge THANK YOU to you who participated and actively contributed to this upcoming law and social improvement!
Also a heartfelt thank you to a large number of special rights organisations from all over Sweden, thanks to Freja’s soon-to-be one million users, thanks to you who are now making life better for all the approximately one million Swedes who live in digital exclusion – THANK YOU!
Background
In December 2022, the government began an inquiry into a secure and accessible digital identity. It had two tasks, firstly to propose how a state e-ID could be designed, secondly to analyse whether there should be a requirement for the public sector to accept all e-identification alternatives on the market.
In the partial report presented by the government’s investigators on 16 October 2023, a government e-identification card is proposed to supplement the existing e-IDs that are already on the market. For Freja, there are several advantages to a government e-ID, not least when the investigation suggests that it should be able to be used to activate a mobile e-ID from, for example, Freja.
The big news for Freja, however, is the proposal that there shall be a legal requirement that all actors in the public sector to offer all approved e-IDs in their e-services. The investigation here includes state authorities, regions, municipalities and also private companies within schools, healthcare and care and which are to some extent publicly funded. This means in practice that it may become illegal in the future not to offer Freja in public e-services.
Make Sure Everyone Is Included
Finally the proposal that we have been advocating for several years has come via a government inquiry representing a big step forward for Sweden’s digitisation – inclusion, redundancy and freedom of choice.
THANKS!
