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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 15 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

There is an article in the proposed law that e-ID is only allowed to be required for actions, where the law explicitly requires authentication.

In this proposed law there is no article that explicitly forces services to require a ID

So it only applies to services that used to require identification since a long time, lime buying alcohol, money laundering protection, some government stuff you had to do physically prior etc.

But there is a new law coming which sadly did mot get a referendum, that requires age verification for 18+ media like video and games. But this law will take effect no matter if e-ID is accepted or not. So if e-ID was declined, you would have to scan the compete ID, do a liveness selfie and send it to private companies like Netflix to watch 18+ stuff there.

With e-ID, you can proof you’re old enough without revealing name, gender, body hight etc.

Please inform yourself correctly before spreading nonsense

[–] harfang@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

As you mentioned. There's a new law coming without referendum. Today you'll need it to guy alcohol. Tomorrow streaming After tomorrow access to public transport

The open web forum in my picture exists. You can have a look. They dictate the rules. Its public information :)

[–] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yes because that law did not get a measly 50k signatures. So there is no need to vote.

[–] harfang@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

Because people are not involved in the digital topics as they don't understand it.

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