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estonia has the rigth idea. their card is about empowering and giving control to the citizen. Last I checked, it migth have shift since then. US credit score/C
by gcb0 8y ago
estonia has the rigth idea. their card is about empowering and giving control to the citizen. Last I checked, it migth have shift since then.
US credit score/CN socia score/RU degrees of separation from putin (ok, I made the last one up :) are invisible, non-opt (in or out) systems of control.
estonia ID card (and an aborted digital ID in some south american countries) were about allowing the citzen to securely sign a document, in person or remotely.
the two concepts are world apart.
- iknowstuff 8y agoWell, yes. The only privacy concern I see is when online services ping back to the Estonian government to make sure your certificate hasn't been revoked. If they choose to hit their API for every public key they encounter, the government could collect information about all the services you use. I think businesses can choose to periodically download a list of revoked certificates instead to avoid leaking usage data.
- gcb0 8y agoeven then, still worlds apart from credit score, where a tird party you never registered with have the ping back, plus new meta data such as what you were trying to buy and for how much, etc.