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Fact : what's really behind the Swiss E-ID (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by harfang@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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End of September, Switzerland will vote for E-ID. A big threat for our privacy as it will widely used for tons of new use cases.

Behind the government pitch of an "open source project, completely optional" hides big tech industry... Which will make it mandatory to access their services.

What are your thoughts on that ?

#Switzerland #Privacymatters

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[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 15 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I think avoiding functioneren creep will be a certain issue.

Belgium has such an e-id for nearly 10 years now. It works pretty good and acces to your personalia data is granular.

If only age verification is needed, the request will only grant you birth date.

Comanies that want to use it need to be vetted and their acces to your data is centrally regulated.

https://www.itsme-id.com/en-BE

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

centrally regulated.

Any privacy freak who did a review on ItsMe? I just shared minutes ago https://lemmy.ml/post/36346569/21174131 that I don't trust them but maybe I'm just paranoid. The fact that they are regulated means little, Meta and Google also are and they legally siphon everything we let them.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If only age verification is needed, the request will only grant you birth date.

I always wonder why they don't minimize data further. "Age of Majority reached: Yes" seems like it should be good enough.

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 4 points 12 hours ago

The German one supports that. It will also tell you exactly what data is transferred to the service in question.

But because Germany is Germany, the eID is rarely even implemented.