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Interesting. Could you please give us more details about this?

inetknght 5y ago
Sure. 1. lose access to your email. this can happen many ways -- whether your email account was compromised or your domain was lost or you forgot your password. 2. ??? welp good luck getting those oh-so-important bills and notices. and good luck resetting your access Here's another scenario: 1. lose access to your email ten years ago and have to go through all that. now you're averse to any service even ten years later wanting to exclusively do business online Speaking from experience. Here's a third scenario: 1. don't "lose" access to your email. instead, get inundated with spam and phishing attempts. to combat that, create new emails. good luck changing your email address! I still have banks that send notices to email addresses that were completely removed from the account and present that same email address as a second factor for authorization; I'm very not-impressed with Chase bank. I fear the day that email address ever gets deleted specifically because so many businesses either don't allow changing the email or still use the email after it's been removed from the account
pvaldes 5y ago
There are a lot of recent changes that are really stupid. To have an opened bussiness in Spain now, you need to provide the government an email. The excuse is that they want to save paper and stop using the standard post. So you need to pay for internet access. There are still 5 millions of people in Spain that live in rural areas where they don't have a good access to internet or don't have access at all. Though luck if you are one of they. They will put all important legal messages related with your activity in that mail. So if you lose the access to that email (or is hacked for a month and some mails are removed silently) now you have a problem. Missing the latest legal change or government requirement means that now you are doing things illegally or that you are refusing to provide them data about your company that they asked for. There is a liability and legal consequences attached. But the mail just will tell you (genius move) that the government wants to tell you "something", but not what. To retrieve this message you need to provide a phone number so they will send you a code by watsup necessary to access the info. So now you need to use a Facebook app, want it or not, because the government "cares for your privacy". The government will not receive you now without a cite, arranged by phone or web, so you can't just walk into the building and show your ID card to ask what they want. If you think that you can just visit the gov web page, good luck with that. Your important messages are somewhere in that black hole, as unreachable as in the bottom of the ocean. So you need a phone, but neither a normal desktop phone nor an old reliable Nokia will be accepted. You need to provide a mobile of the spy-phone type. Because for example, to receive your covid passport you need to scan a barcode now. So you must have a camera in your phone and an OS able to install an run an external app to scan 3d barcodes. Do you want to know why asking for covid passport in bars was a failure? This. And if you have an crash car and the police emits a traffic report, they will give you a ticket full of 3D Codes linking to the report, the extra info, the laws that apply, and your rights. No spy-phone?, you can't access to your info. They could just provide a link, a short chain of characters that is the universal way to navigate internet, but not. That would be too easy. I had been contacted by phone by somebody in the government encouraging me to use their services more. I agreed to provide a mail to receive more info and some weeks later received a mail, asking me to provide a phone in order to access the info (so they can call me asking for a mail maybe?). So either you agree to have a phone that tracks all your life now, or you are treated as a sub-citizen with less rights.

Sure. 1. lose access to your email. this can happen many ways -- whether your email account was compromised or your domain was lost or you forgot your password. 2. ??? welp good luck getting those oh-so-important bills and notices. and good luck resetting your access Here's another scenario: 1. lose access to your email ten years ago and have to go through all that. now you're averse to any service even ten years later wanting to exclusively do business online Speaking from experience. Here's a third scenario: 1. don't "lose" access to your email. instead, get inundated with spam and phishing attempts. to combat that, create new emails. good luck changing your email address! I still have banks that send notices to email addresses that were completely removed from the account and present that same email address as a second factor for authorization; I'm very not-impressed with Chase bank. I fear the day that email address ever gets deleted specifically because so many businesses either don't allow changing the email or still use the email after it's been removed from the account

pvaldes 5y ago

There are a lot of recent changes that are really stupid. To have an opened bussiness in Spain now, you need to provide the government an email. The excuse is that they want to save paper and stop using the standard post. So you need to pay for internet access. There are still 5 millions of people in Spain that live in rural areas where they don't have a good access to internet or don't have access at all. Though luck if you are one of they. They will put all important legal messages related with your activity in that mail. So if you lose the access to that email (or is hacked for a month and some mails are removed silently) now you have a problem. Missing the latest legal change or government requirement means that now you are doing things illegally or that you are refusing to provide them data about your company that they asked for. There is a liability and legal consequences attached. But the mail just will tell you (genius move) that the government wants to tell you "something", but not what. To retrieve this message you need to provide a phone number so they will send you a code by watsup necessary to access the info. So now you need to use a Facebook app, want it or not, because the government "cares for your privacy". The government will not receive you now without a cite, arranged by phone or web, so you can't just walk into the building and show your ID card to ask what they want. If you think that you can just visit the gov web page, good luck with that. Your important messages are somewhere in that black hole, as unreachable as in the bottom of the ocean. So you need a phone, but neither a normal desktop phone nor an old reliable Nokia will be accepted. You need to provide a mobile of the spy-phone type. Because for example, to receive your covid passport you need to scan a barcode now. So you must have a camera in your phone and an OS able to install an run an external app to scan 3d barcodes. Do you want to know why asking for covid passport in bars was a failure? This. And if you have an crash car and the police emits a traffic report, they will give you a ticket full of 3D Codes linking to the report, the extra info, the laws that apply, and your rights. No spy-phone?, you can't access to your info. They could just provide a link, a short chain of characters that is the universal way to navigate internet, but not. That would be too easy. I had been contacted by phone by somebody in the government encouraging me to use their services more. I agreed to provide a mail to receive more info and some weeks later received a mail, asking me to provide a phone in order to access the info (so they can call me asking for a mail maybe?). So either you agree to have a phone that tracks all your life now, or you are treated as a sub-citizen with less rights.