Neil BrownIf it is indeed the case that any country's EIDAS (electronic identification, authentication, and trust services) implementation requires an account with a third party tech company - Apple, or Google, or whatever - then that is repugnant and reprehensible.
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@neil I remember the technical spec for some proposed age verification app based on EIDAS explicitly recommended (or required?) SafetyNet and whatever Apple has as part of the implementations, and it's indeed repugnant and reprehensible.
So much for the talk of digital sovereignty when there's a legally mandated duopoly for government apps.
And of course, desktop computers are just not secure enough to do this according to regulators. Well if you have a desktop computer that can run a web browser and receive SMS that's suddenly fine for most of the use cases actually.