The government is very split on many questions. Privacy being a weird one because it’s the (somewhat) left-leaning Social Democratic that usually come up with these crazy ideas without understanding the implications of privacy.

See Chat Control 2022-2024 https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/chat-control-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-eu-plan-to-scan-all-your-whatsapp-chats

Ah interesting. I didn’t know that was possible!

How did you login to apps in your phone? Go to the computer and open Firefox? Bitwarden on the phone integrates into the apps directly.

Sweden

They don’t require it, you can also go to a physical office if you don’t have BankID. Also BankID is a private company wo is problematic on several levels.

Many government agencies have started accepting multiple ways to identify yourself such as Freja.

Some politicians would prefer a standardized governmental solution to identity.https://www.dagensps.se/bors-finans/kinberg-batra-infor-statlig-bank-id/

I’m not so sure about that though.

It’s an ongoing topic. We’ll see more where it goes.

Most data can be de-anonymized with some clever tricks. I don’t know about Mozilla but the others definitely try to keep it just anonymous enough to later be correlated with the rest of your profile.

Edit: typos

No any self hosted isn’t on the radar. By big, they mean the centralized giants, i.e. Meta, Google, Telegram, Signal(?) etc.

Force all the big platforms to share their encrypted data. Banning end-to-end encryption. It’s all very stupid and will never actually catch any bad guys.