End of September, Switzerland will vote for E-ID. A big threat for our privacy as it will widely used for tons of new use cases.

Behind the government pitch of an “open source project, completely optional” hides big tech industry… Which will make it mandatory to access their services.

What are your thoughts on that ?

#Switzerland #Privacymatters

  • hubobes@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    2 days ago

    You can not just say that it is a threat to privacy. Its design improves privacy as we finally can ID ourselves, where it has always been required, without actually giving our identity to online services.

      • hubobes@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        14 hours ago

        Did you read the law? It explicitly prohibits broader usage without the necessary new laws to allow them to do so.

        • harfang@slrpnk.netOP
          1·
          12 hours ago

          I known, but its still up to the provider. And to prove its unnecessary will takes so much efforts. There’s too much lack in this law from my point of view. Instead, to prove our age for example, we could get TOKENS with age verification that are completely anonymous.

          • hubobes@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            11 hours ago

            I mean that is exactly how it works. And if a private company wants to verify your age while violating the law they can do that already, just don’t use their service then.