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

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.

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That’s exactly how it works with the Belgian system.

Same for reductionis at the local swimming pool. They can only check if I’m a local but don’t get to see my adress.

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.

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