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

  • harfang@slrpnk.netOP
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    11 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

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      9 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.

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        7 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