Since May 2025, citizens can have passport photos taken by licensed photographers in the alfo.passbild network of RINGFOTO, which transmit the image via a secure cloud service to the authority.
Digitale Passbild-Übermittlung – sicher & einfach dank Partnerschaft von RINGFOTO & AUTHADA ↗
What happened
- Photographers first identify themselves with AUTHADA; afterwards a short authentication with the Online-Ausweisfunktion, also via AUTHADA, precedes each upload.
- AUTHADA reports that over 3,000 photographers from the alfo.passbild network have identified themselves with AUTHADA.
Why it matters to Signicat
- Signicat-relevant as a government-facing eID use case: AUTHADA is positioned in a public-sector eID authentication workflow, a segment where Signicat's eID Hub competes.
- Germany (DACH) is a market Signicat does not list as a core Nordic/Benelux brokering focus; the item is a single-country German public workflow with no Signicat named.
Evidence from the source (4 quotes)
- “Fotografinnen und Fotografen identifizieren sich initial mit AUTHADA.” source ↗
- “Bislang haben sich über 3.000 Fotografinnen und Fotografen aus dem alfo.passbild-Netzwerk mit AUTHADA identifiziert” source ↗
- “Für die sichere Identifizierung und Authentifizierung sorgt die eID-Anwendung von AUTHADA” source ↗
- “bundesweite Umsetzung der neuen Regelung für Ausweisbilder” source ↗
eID brokeringDocument IDV biometricsCustomer winPartnershipDACH
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