The France Identité app is coming to the iPhone by summer, according to the French language site Consomac.
It allow all users to store identity cards, an alternative to drivers licenses and passwords, on the smartphone. About 25 million folks in France use them.
The French national identity card carte nationale d’identité or CNI) consists of an electronic ID-1 card bearing a photograph, name and address. While the identity card is non-compulsory, all persons must possess some form of valid government-issued identity documentation.
The card may be used to verify identity and nationality and may also be used as a travel document within Europe (except Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and United Kingdom) as well as French overseas territories, Anguilla, Egypt, Turkey, Georgia, Dominica (max 14 days), Montserrat and Saint Lucia instead of a French passport. The cards are widely used for other purposes — for example, when opening a bank account, or when making a payment by check.
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