don’t forget chat control!

I don’t have a problem with the idea of a digital ID. I’ve been saying for years that it’s ridiculous that any time you want to do something even vaguely official you have to take a gas bill with you to prove your address.

What I worry about is the implementation. It seems like it’s going to be a government app that stores everything. What company is going to develop that? Where’s the data going to be stored and how? What vulnerabilities does it have, and how has this been tested? Is biometric data going to be stored anywhere? etc.

If they were to let me store my ID in my phone’s built-in wallet, then I’m happy. I know the security and I’m content that my data is safe and recoverable.

But it doesn’t seem like that’s something that will be possible. So I’m going to object strongly.

In Spain we had digital ID since forever. In Poland we have digital ID since couple of years and having ID was mandatory for decades. There’s nothing Orwellian about it. Just because one shitty government supports some policy doesn’t make this policy bad.

You dont improve government by voting. You improve government with a gin ti its head.

Look at the people getting everything they want from governments not what theyre told they want, what they actually want. They didnt vote in a fuvking think.

Those things don’t have agency. It’s not them on that position.

So much for it being optional.

There’s a good chance it won’t spread due to the UK being a very good example of how awful it is. Works quite well with the age verification shit, now that even Wikipedia is under threat you can explain it even to rather stubborn boomers rather well.

Over here they try different kinds of authoritarianism and surveillance instead. Like Chatcontrol (which by now became more of a Devicecontrol).