The myPhoto digital service is available through gov.gr

The myPhoto digital service is available from today, which will significantly facilitate citizens and professional photographers in their dealings with the State, essentially upgrading the level of services provided.

With the new digital service, professional photographers will have the possibility to store in a simple and secure way the digital photo of the face and/or handwritten signature of their clients in the G-Cloud (Unified Government Cloud).

Citizens will have at their disposal the digital files that concern them whenever they need them, after first associating them with their VAT number, so that, if they wish, they can use:

• their photo in their digital transactions with the State and
• their signature exclusively during the process of issuing and renewing the driver’s license.

The myPhoto service can be accessed via gov.gr, as well as directly at the online address myPhoto.gov.gr.

The operation of the myPhoto service is as follows: initially, the citizen will contact a certified photographer, i.e. a professional photographer who has declared the corresponding KAD (Activity Code) in the AADE register, who will receive the photograph of the person and/or of the citizen’s handwritten signature.

The photographer (or his authorized employee) will then log into myPhoto, using the Taxisnet codes, upload the digital files to myPhoto and enter the citizen’s mobile number and/or email address, in order to send them the necessary code corresponding to the files concerning it.

Once the code is received, the citizen will be able to log in to myPhoto using the Taxisnet codes and view their digital photo and/or signature. He will then be able to:

• to associate the above digital files with his identifying information, such as the VAT number
• to save the digital files on his computer and
• to authorize electronic applications and services of the Public to use them where necessary, without requiring the presentation of a photograph or the placement of a handwritten signature.

Detailed instructions for using the myPhoto service can be found here:

It is clarified that for the authentication of both photographers and citizens in the myPhoto service, it is necessary to have a confirmed mobile phone number in the National Communications Registry (NMR).

In the first phase of myPhoto’s operation, the applications that can automatically connect and retrieve citizens’ digital photo and handwritten signature, once authorized by the citizen, are those related to driver’s licenses (renewal, copy due theft/loss/damage, replacement with a new type). Gradually, myPhoto will be interconnected with other digital services of the Government for which the presentation of a photo is required.

myPhoto was developed by the General Secretariats of Digital Governance and Simplification of Public Administration Procedures and Information Systems of the Ministry of Digital Governance, in implementation of the Joint Ministerial Decision (Government Gazette B’ 4484/24.08.2022) of the Minister of State Kyriakos Pierrakakis and the Deputy Minister of Finance Theodoros Skylakakis .

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