Spid and electronic identity card, what’s the difference

The Spid has three different levels of security. The first allows you to access some online services through a username and password. The according to it allows instead to generate an otp by sms or app and is required on sites that require a higher degree of security. The third level provides even a physical mediumbe it a smart card or a remote digital signature device.

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The Cie

THE holders of the Cie go practically hand in hand with those of Spid. In fact, in September they were counted 31.3 million. Unlike the Spid, the electronic identity card guarantees always a third-level identity threshold. The document issued by the Ministry of the Interior and produced by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, which it costs 16.79 eurosin fact requires a pin number and of a puk codeas well as of a dedicated reader.

The Cie indeed contains a chip within which they are stored all personal data of the citizen and it is for all intents and purposes a contactless card: it is equipped with near field communication (nfc) technology, the same as the latest generation debit and credit cards. For this reason, many users find it more convenient to prefer the Spid: not all cell phones and tablets are equipped with an nfc reader, while the device for connecting the card to desktop PCs costs around 13 euros. This summer a case broke out concerning the issue of the health card due to the lack of a chip.

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The idea of ​​government

Although the portals of the public administrations that they support are numerous both the Spid and the Ciethe goal of the Meloni government is to create a single national digital identity. “The electronic identity card – he wrote Undersecretary Butti to the Courier – it is an equivalent digital identity and in many respects better than the Spid. Today, however, the Cie discounts three limits”, precisely identified in terms of release times, cost and chips.

“It deals with – he added – of issues that are already known and that we are therefore addressing today. We would like to work to secure the release of the Cie remotely, at no cost and in 24 hoursand to ensure its usability, through solutions at least as simple as the Spid“.

Precisely in this period, Europe is working on the creation of a common digital identity system in Europe is more complicated than expected. In a few years (the goal is the 2025) every citizen of the 27 States of the Union will have an app where you can upload your documents: identity card, driving licence, health card, but also cadastral documents of the house or educational qualifications. A mechanism similar to that of the green pass, which was an unexpected testing ground for Brussels for a larger project that has been cultivated for some time. And which the Commission now wants to put into practice, developing already in 2023 the first use cases.