Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅So, it turns out the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function
Absolutely pathetic
If a German citizen gets sanctioned by the US government, once this is implemented (later this year), that means they will no longer be able to be a participating member of German society, e.g. to show their (digital) driver's license to traffic police
I've said it before an I'll say it again: This entire project of identity verification with Apple/Google-account bound mobile devices is going to lead the continent down a dark, dark path into full technological submission to the US
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A bit of an explanation
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> the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function
There are so much layers of WTF? in all this. The path dependence on offshore tech corporations being only the most surface one (although I agree this is a very idea).
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At a deeper level is the critique implied by the phrase 'papers please, comrade'. It's traditionally understood that in democracies, people have an inalienable right to privacy, and ought not to be expected to carry ID or prove who they are. *Unless* they are claiming powers under a position of authority, proving their right to use those powers to other citizens.
The creeping normalisation of people being asked for papers - online and off - is the more difficult problem to grapple with.