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

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hahaha, have you ever read my comment?

There is a law that will come in effect soon about selling media and games that are age restricted. The seller has to do an age verification. The referendum against it did not get enough signatures. This law will come into effect no matter if e-ID yes or e-ID no. You didn’t have to verify your age yet, because that law is not in effect yet. You will have to upload a picture of your physical ID with unnecessary private data, if e-ID gets not passed. Do you really not understand?

[–] harfang@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

That's a trap