The EDPS recognizes the need for greater transparency, verifiability, traceability, and accountability in the business-to-government and business-to-business context. This explains why different design choices may be required for European Business Wallets (used by economic operators acting in a commercial or professional capacity) compared to European Digital Identity Wallets (used by individuals acting in a private capacity). That said, the EDPS emphasizes that compliance with data protection rules must be ensured whenever the data involved qualify as personal data.
In this context, the EDPS welcomes the fact that the Proposal:
- highlights the need to ensure compliance with EU data protection rules
- provides for selective disclosure functionality
- requires that the European Digital Directory be made accessible only to European Business Wallet owners, their authorized representatives, and providers of such wallets
The EDPS’s recommendations focus on further clarifying the applicable data protection rules and principles (through a reformulation of Recital 39) and establishing a duty for the European Commission, in its role as supervisory authority for Union entities issuing business wallets, to cooperate with the EDPS (to be included in Article 15).
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Source: EDPS
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