Germany has officially rebranded its European Digital Identity Wallet as D-You, unveiling the consumer-facing name at a Berlin event hosted by Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger. The wallet is targeted for a January 2027 launch and will allow German citizens to store digital representations of identity documents, driving licenses, fishing permits, firearms certificates, and school transcripts on their mobile devices.
Minister Wildberger stressed that citizen control over data is central to the project's design. The wallet is part of the broader EU Digital Identity framework, which aims to provide all EU citizens with a standardized digital wallet by 2027.
The project recently published portions of its source code online and announced that a bug bounty program will launch in the coming days. At the Berlin event, 40 project partners gathered to discuss use cases, ranging from the Federal Employment Agency and Deutsche Post to the Hamburg transit authority and Vodafone. The Minister envisions scenarios including identity verification at package pickup stations and bot-proof verification for online housing applications.
Despite the ambitious timeline, significant gaps remain. Some ministerial documents have no urgency to integrate their credentials into the wallet, and several European-level technical specifications are still pending.
