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Orwell’s Wallet: European electronic identity system leads us straight into surveillance capitalism (en.epicenter.works)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The thing is that sooner or later we will be forced into such a system. The problem is that it is hard (but not impossible) to do this the right way and it would be a very powerful thing to have for everybody. But getting it wrong will have horrible consequences. From this article it looks like the legislator lack required expertise or will to for the right solution that would basically empower people with control of their data and make tracking not feasible.

"lifelong identifier to their users’ identities" is obviously not needed for any company and that will defeat any privacy mechanism since companies will cooperate to piece together a full profile (as they do today).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

The thing is that sooner or later we will be forced into such a system.

I disagree.

Remember, they forced the injection on us, but not everyone took it.

Some see through the evil, and say no.

Eventually the herd will follow those with more courage .

Digital identity systems may be forced upon you, but there's hope. You can still live free.