MyPhoto for citizens

From National Registry of Administrative Public Services



72dae253-ca65-45ce-a332-2655112687f6 654156 MyPhoto για πολίτες

At a glance

Points of service

Available only digitally

Number of required documents

Not required

Fees

Provided without cost

Estimated Time (digitally)

1 minute

Description

The "myPhoto for Citizens" service allows citizens to manage digital photos of the face and their own signature and to authorise electronic applications and services provided by Public Sector Entities to use them when necessary.

Basic information

Competent body

MINISTRY OF DIGITAL GOVERNANCE

Authority/Public body’s Unit responsible for the institutional framework of the procedure

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Provided to

Related links

Validity duration

1 year

Last update

01/08/2024

Application

Application Type

Application

Submission by:

Submitted by the applicant (digital)

Submitted by:

Persons


What you will need

Means of authentication, identification and signature

Identification with TAXISnet codes, Second disposable identification factor such as One Time Password - OTP

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    Requirements

      Fees

        Related




        Output & Results

        Output

        Launch another procedure, Other

        Steps

          Digital steps

            Other information

            Alternative titles

            myPhoto, Use myPhoto (for citizens)

            Official title

            myPhoto for citizens


            Legislation

              Categories

              Τype of procedure

              Trigger

              Applied for, e-notification, Exit of another procedure

              Trigger (submission method)

              Application (digital)

              Type

              Outgoing


            • 1 Tax Possession of a VAT (Tax Identity) number.


              No No

            • 2 Possession of passwords to enter software The user must have the code(s) of the General Secretariat of Public Administration Information Systems of the Ministry of Digital Governance (TAXISnet).

              No No

            • 3 Certification The user must have confirmed his/her cell phone number in the National Communications Register so that he/she can accept a single-use code (OTP) to him.

              No No

            • 4 Certification The user must have received a code number, with a written message (sms) or an e-mail, following his/her visit to a professional photographer.


              No No

            • Joint Ministerial Decision 40319 2023

              Description Amending the specifications for the files of facial photographs and visual displays of the handwritten signature.

              Legal references https://www.et.gr/api/DownloadFeksApi/?fek pdf=20230205548

            • Joint Ministerial Decision 34933 2022 4484 Β

              Description Operation of myPhoto digital service.

              Legal references https://www.gsis.gr/sites/default/files/myPhoto/FEK B 4484 2022.pdf

              ΑΔΑ 985346ΜΤΛΠ-ΒΗΤ

            • Law 32 4821 2021 134 Α

              Description Modernisation of the Greek National Cadastre, new digital services and enhancement of digital governance and other provisions.

              Legal references https://www.et.gr/api/DownloadFeksApi/?fek pdf=20210100134

            • 1 User Identification

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description In order to enter myPhoto service, citizens use of the TAXISnet codes-credentials of the General Secretariat of Public Administration Information System of the Ministry of Digital Governance.

              No No


            • 2 Use of second identification factor

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description If the user has confirmed his/her mobile phone number in the National Contact Register, he/she receives an SMS-message with a single-use code (OTP), which he/she shall register in order to enter the application.

              No No


            • 3 Entry to the application as a citizen

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Software action

              Description If the user is not a certified professional photographer or an authorised employee of a photographer, he/she enters the system automatically as a citizen and no choice of role is required.

              Yes No


            • 4 Selection of the role of citizens

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description If the user is a certified professional photographer or an authorised employee of a photographer, he/she must choose to use the application as a citizen.

              Yes No


            • 5 User information on the conditions for processing personal data

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Software action

              Description A text regarding the processing of personal data and the rights of the subject shall be presented to the user.

              No No


            • 6 Refusal to grant consent to the processing of personal data

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description The user does not grant his/her consent to the processing of his or her personal data.

              Yes Yes


            • 7 Granting consent to the processing of personal data

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description The user grants his/her consent to the processing of his or her personal data.

              Yes No


            • 8 Insert code number

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description The citizen enters the passkey received by the photographer either by entering it to the respective field or by scanning the relevant QR Code, if he/she uses a device with a camera function.

              No No


            • 9 Exceeding of daily limit of submissions

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Software action

              Description The daily limit of submissions by the user has been exceeded and the submission process has stopped.

              Notes The citizen is entitled to associate and dissociate up to 5 codes per day.

              Yes Yes


            • 10 Non-exceeding daily submissions

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Software action

              Description There is no exceedance of the daily limit and the submitted code number is accepted.

              Notes The citizen is entitled to associate and dissociate up to 5 codes per day.

              Yes No


            • 11 Digital photo preview

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Software action

              Description The citizen is given a preview of the digital photos of his/her face and handwritten signature, which correspond to the passkey he/she received by the photographer.

              No No


            • 12 Disposal of digital photographs

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description The citizen rejects digital photographs either because they do not correspond to him/her or because he/she does not want to use the specific images of his/her face person and handwritten signature.

              Yes Yes


            • 13 Confirmation of digital photographs

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description The citizen confirms that digital photographs portray himself/herself and his/her handwritten signature and that he/she wants to use them.

              Yes No


            • 14 Passkey association with a citizen

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description The citizen associates the passkey sent to him/her, by extension, and the pair of digital photos that corresponds to him/her, using his/her VAT number. Only one passkey and thus a pair of face photographs and signatures can at any time be associated with the citizens VAT number.

              Notes Digital files that have not been associated with the VAT number are deleted from the system within 2 weeks from the date of dispatch of the message w2ith the passkey. Digital files associated with the VAT number are retained in the system for a period of one year.

              No No


            • 15 The citizen stores the digital files he/she has associated with his/her VAT number locally

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data output from software

              Description The user may, if he/she wishes, receive the digital files corresponding to the passkey associated with his VAT number and store them in a local storage medium.

              Notes Optional action.

              Yes No


            • 16 Authoriσation of third-party applications for photography

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description The user shall select one or more applications, which he/she also empowers to draw digital photographs associated with his/her VAT number.

              Notes Optional action.

              Yes No


            • 17 Compilation of digital photos by third-party applications

              Responsible for Implementation Third entity software

              Μethod of Implementation Software interaction (interoperability)

              Description The digital photos corresponding to the code number that the citizen has associated with his/her VAT number are derived from the user-authorised applications.

              Yes No


            • 18 Withdrawal of delegation to third parties

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description The user shall select one or more applications for which he/she withdraws the authorisation to draw digital photographs associated with his/her VAT number.

              Notes Optional action

              Yes No


            • 19 Dissociation of passkey with digital photos

              Responsible for Implementation Entity software that performs the service

              Μethod of Implementation Data input in software

              Description The user disassociates the passkey from his/her VAT number and thus from his/her digital photos.

              Notes Optional action

              No Yes





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