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

  • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 month ago

    I think avoiding functioneren creep will be a certain issue.

    Belgium has such an e-id for nearly 10 years now. It works pretty good and acces to your personalia data is granular.

    If only age verification is needed, the request will only grant you birth date.

    Comanies that want to use it need to be vetted and their acces to your data is centrally regulated.

    https://www.itsme-id.com/en-BE

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      1 month ago

      If only age verification is needed, the request will only grant you birth date.

      I always wonder why they don’t minimize data further. “Age of Majority reached: Yes” seems like it should be good enough.