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by vertex-four 3151 days ago
Right, but point is, you can quite easily have Mobile-ID and your ID card, and if something happens to your ID card you can still use Mobile-ID. I think.

If there's no redundancy measure for the ID card system failing - for example, automatically extending deadlines - that's a problem, and an easily solvable one at that, since it's mostly policy. It's not something against the ID card system.
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dullgiulio 3151 days ago
And again, what the parent says in untrue. You can sign documents with your phone and still take part of the expiring public tender he describes.
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dekrg 3151 days ago
Yes, but you need to already have Mobile-ID for that. To get a Mobile-ID you need ID-Card with valid certs.

So if a person doesn't already have Mobile-ID and their ID-Card certs are blocked they can't get a Mobile-ID and thus they can't access any digital government services.

It's not like this is purely theoretical - large number of Estonian Id-Card will have their certs blocked and not everyone has Mobile-ID.

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bragh 3151 days ago
1. Mobile-ID requires a pretty good cellphone connection to work properly and avoid getting timeouts.

2. Mobile-ID requires you to pay for signing up and after that, 1€/month to your mobile provider.

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