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itsme: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

itsme is a digital identity delivered as a smartphone app. Users can log in online, create accounts, confirm transactions and sign documents with it, without a card reader or password. Activation can be done with the Belgian eID, among other routes. Individuals use the app, while companies and public bodies integrate itsme as a login and signing method in their services. The website offers a choice of Belgium and the Netherlands.

itsme is operated by Belgian Mobile ID SA/NV, headquartered in Brussels. The company was founded by seven Belgian banks and telecom operators: Belfius, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING Belgium, KBC, Orange Belgium, Proximus and Telenet. In 2021 the Belgian federal investment company FPIM/SFPI joined as a shareholder with a 20% stake; no non-European owner is known. The public website does not state where data is hosted, so a European organisation may want to have this confirmed contractually. itsme is not open source and is available only as a service from the provider.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked July 2, 2026
HeadquartersBE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US (US)Technically measured
CategoryIdentity
TypeProduct
Websiteitsme-id.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to itsme

The European alternatives to itsme come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with itsme

itsme is headquartered in BE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so itsme scores best on data residency.

itsme is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs itsme together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to itsme?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to itsme include Adnovum, Airlock and Auðkenni. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to itsme?

Our list of EU alternatives to itsme is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is itsme GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

itsme is headquartered in BE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes itsme an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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