What really leaves me speechless about #eIDAS (electronic #IDentification, #Authentication and trust Services) is the now customary regulatory behavior, #EU-style.
Without listening to #CivilSociety, pure wishful thinking on the most complex issues is "adopted" as mandatory regulation. Even the most basic ideas about feasibility and design of the technical side are added later, as a heavily versioned "Architecture Reference Framework (ARF)", because: oops, eIDAS has to be implemented somehow now, right?
The market will take care of the rest, thanks to #DigitalZwang. Practically the entire content of eIDAS is a list of gold mines for "service" providers. Either you pay for their services, e.g., for a "digital wallet", with your hard-earned money, for a little #privacy; or you get them "for free" as a little treat from the profiteers of surveillance capitalism, in return for stripping yourself naked ( Art. 5a (16) a): "...unless explicitly authorised by the user." โ i.e., clicked away).
Not even a trace of relative anonymity or at least pseudonymity will remain, because (once again) allegedly working technical solutions are promoted that are not resolving the issues either.
You believe that Art. 5 will protect you? "Without prejudice to specific rules of Union or national law requiring users to identify themselves or to the legal effect given to pseudonyms under national law, the use of pseudonyms that are chosen by the user shall not be prohibited."? Read the first part, again โ the surveillance capitalist of your choice likely also offers "payment services", for example, which (unfortunately!) "forces" them to know your identity.
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #democracy / #government / #domesticpolicy / #settlers / #violence / #repression / #ngo / #civilsociety
The EU Commissionโs new Civil Society Strategy, promised by Ursula von der Leyen in 2024, aims to protect civic space, strengthen participation, and secure funding for NGOs. On paper, it sounds promising. But in practice, it is deeply undermined by the recent commissionโs own actions.
My message at the #ENNHRI's high-level #partnerships event: United in our pursuit of #HumanRights, we can counter the threats to the protection system's very survival.
I pledge to deepen engagement and support for #NHRIs and to speak up for them.
I urge everyone to intensify their efforts to stand up for #civilsociety.
We must act together to make a difference for the people we serve.
#Evil But #stupid
is still very #Dangerous
#Fascism
#Belligerence
#Ignorance
#Hate
#incompetence
#Racism
#Colonialism
It all feeds the furnace of #noise and #chaos in which the fires of #totalitarianism and #oligarchy #rage
#CivilSociety if it ever claws back a toehold - MUST adjust the rules.
#ExpandTheCOurt ( should be 27 - not 9)
#Statehood for #DC #Guam and #PuertoRico
Thats it.
The rest will work itself out.
๐จ๏ธ ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ป Good morning from the French-border to fediverse, I'm with colleagues (all genders) amid a drill for #firstresponders and #civildefence - will be back tonight, in the meantime: keep up your great work and humanitarian digital boosts, wherever you are - and stay safe
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My message at the #ENNHRI's high-level #partnerships event: United in our pursuit of #HumanRights, we can counter the threats to the protection system's very survival.
I pledge to deepen engagement and support for #NHRIs and to speak up for them.
I urge everyone to intensify their efforts to stand up for #civilsociety.
We must act together to make a difference for the people we serve.
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katzenberger
Gerd_Brodowski
cs
Paul Belcher FRCP MFPH Hon ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง
Commissioner for Human Rights
oldguycrusty
Susan Ville