Government demands digital IDs be universally accepted

All organisations in Cyprus must accept digital documents presented through the government’s Digital Citizen application in all in person transactions, the deputy research and digital policy ministry insisted on Tuesday, warning that refusal is legally equivalent to rejecting a physical document. In a statement, the deputy ministry stressed that digital public documents stored on the […]

Digital IDs on your phone are legally binding in Cyprus — and organisations have no excuse to refuse them

Digital documents stored on Cyprus’s official Digital Citizen app carry the same legal weight as physical ones and must be accepted without exception by all organisations, companies and service providers in the Republic — and refusal to do so is legally equivalent to turning away the physical document itself. The Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation […]

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