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Fact : what's really behind the Swiss E-ID (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by 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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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Indeed, the lobbying is nasty and the party financing is not as transparent as it could be.

But discrediting the whole system as undemocratic because of those "minor flaws" is just not fair IMO.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe not all the system is corrupted, but when I found that Switzerland just follow the rules defined by the open wallet forum in this case. I've doubts

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Do you have the same issue with the W3C or the Wifi Alliance?

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