Rather than empowering users to access the services they need in a secure and safe way, the #eIDWallet risks becoming a tool of surveillance and control.
EDRi, @epicenter_works and other digital rights and consumer protection organisations across Europe wrote to the @EUCommission Commission to urge them to amend their plan and ensure that the rights of users are properly safeguarded.
Read the open letter ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/the-eid-wallet-still-doesnt-deserve-your-full-trust/
#EU #DigitalID #eIDWallet #Privacy #DataProtection: "Today, our efforts to see the bad proposals for a european eID implementation fail could convince a blocking minority of EU Member States in the Comitology meeting. Because the Commission saw that they would not have a majority for their proposal among the Member States, they took the vote off the agenda. A good day for the protection user’s autonomy over their digital identity.
Today was an important day in the fight against overreaching digital identity systems in the EU. The technical implementation of the European Digital Identity Wallet was rejected in the Council of the EU. Formally speaking there was no vote, but this is only because the Commission saw that they would not have a majority for their proposal among the Member States and therefore took the vote off the agenda. This is a blow to the attempts to withhold important privacy safeguards and water down protections enshrined by the EU legislator. Epicenter.works has worked tirelessly since 2021 on the underlying law (eIDAS regulation) and sees this a good day for the protection user’s autonomy over their digital identity.
The so-called implementing acts prescribe the technical specification and inner workings of the European Digital Identity Wallet. This Wallet is an app that should allow citizens to identify themselves and verify attributes about them vis-a-vis companies and government agencies, as well as logging into websites or sign documents. According to plans from the EU, the Wallet should become the ubiquitous platform for logging into social media, doctor visits, eGovernment, public transport, banking and age verification."
https://epicenter.works/en/content/finally-a-no-to-overreaching-id-systems
Today, our efforts to see the bad proposals for a european eID implementation fail could convince a blocking minority of EU Member States in the Comitology meeting. Because the Commission saw that they would not have a majority for their proposal among the Member States, they took the vote off the agenda. A good day for the protection user’s autonomy over their digital identity.
EDRi
Miguel Afonso Caetano