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

  • nazgul666@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 hours ago

    You are not required to vote. You will not be punished if you abstain from your vote. You are completely free to chose “yes” or “no” based on your own judgings.

    Isn’t that exactly what democracy is about?

      • nazgul666@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 hours ago

        There are two basic scenarios:

        1. The legislative authority is drafting a new law. This law can be challenged and will then be voted on (this is the case for the E-ID law)
        2. A suggestion for a new law can be raised by citizens. This law will then be voted on.
    • harfang@slrpnk.netOP
      1·
      7 hours ago

      The thing is plenty of politics are paid by insurances and other big companies. Those people influence most of the voters which makes it unbalanced

      • nazgul666@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 hours ago

        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.

        • harfang@slrpnk.netOP
          2·
          3 hours ago

          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