That is why I have signed on to https://NoPhoneHome.com alongside many esteemed colleagues and organizations that I have had the pleasure to collaborate with over the years.

Please help us raise awareness for the issues at hand, and let us openly speak about the fundamental design flaws in #mDL and #eIDAS.

For if we do not do this now, all of us will find themselves living in a world where oppressive regimes with perfect surveillance powers are ever only a single populist election away.

Meanwhile it has become clear the architecture of today's Internet has some fundamental flaws.

These flaws lead to power imbalance, the platform economy, and the surveillance business model.

Now governments everywhere are rushing to build digital identity systems. But instead of building them with a clear eye on the requirements for such systems to be resilient in terms of privacy and security, most are currently poised to repeat the mistakes of the past.

This is something we must not accept.