Hungary’s digital citizenship program kicks off in 2024: everything will change
The relevant law appeared in the Hungarian Gazette, Hungary’s official paper. The government aims to enable all citizens to conduct the most common personal businesses digitally by 2026.
According to the Hungarian News Agency (MTI), KTK, the government’s information centre, said sate services will adapt to the different life situations of the citizens instead of an administration-focused operation.
The Hungarian government accepted the National Digital Citizenship Program in December 2022. In the last year, they created the initiative’s legal framework, rated the different online surfaces of the institutions and surveyed user habits. Furthermore, they made technological and service standards.
According to the new law, digitalized personal data service will launch on 1 September 2024, just like eSignature and eIdentification. As a result, users will be able to prove their identity with the help of a mobile app. Furthermore, they will be able to sign their documents with only an electronic signature.
Considerable expansion in 2025 and 2026
The government will introduce consent-based provision of data in 2025. As a result, citizens will log into multiple service providers’ online web pages after a digital identification. In 2026, the system will be expanded by electronic postal services, document operation and payment services.
The KTK said they would like to create the new mobile app following the EU’s eIDAS 2 regulations. Therefore, all citizens will have a universally applicable but unique identification. As a result, the flow of information will be smooth.
One of the basic principles of the development is the idea that all public data’s owner is the citizen. Therefore, only they can decide whether they allow their data to be used.
The DAP is a cloud-based application and optional for citizens, but older, conventional methods for using services would also remain in place.
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We are sacrificing the last vestiges of privacy for a bit of convenience. This is going to make it very easy to control and track people as well as “un-person” those who somehow fall foul of the diktats issued by the government du jour.