[realityking]

There’s a few decent uses for eID. I used it in the past year to submit my tax declaration (Elster), to change the bank account for car taxes (Zoll Portal), and get an overview of my government retirement insurance. All of these would be possible without the eID but generally involve getting a snail mail letter as authentication.

That is rather slim picking considering all other government interactions and especially private business interactions I did where it could’ve been useful but I’m glad I could do all least some stuff online.