Samsung phones can replace ID cards for German citizens

Samung has announced Germany’s National electronic ID will be available on its phones later this year as a result of an exclusive partnership with the German Federal Office for Information Security, Bundesdruckerei (bdr) and Deutsche Telekom Security. The sides developed a hardware-based security architecture allowing citizens to store their national ID on the phone as an eID when the solution becomes available later this year. All four organizations developed a “holistic security architecture”, built around the hardware. Thanks to the security chip in Samsung smartphones,...