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Digital identity is the key for scaling democracy up, decreasing bureaucracy and integrating the act of being a citizen in day to day life, instead of being a c
by mariusor 3y ago
Digital identity is the key for scaling democracy up, decreasing bureaucracy and integrating the act of being a citizen in day to day life, instead of being a chore that everyone complains about.
It could allow for abuse for sure, but what technology doesn't. Assuming bad faith ab-initio and using those exact "terms of art" give out very strong vibes of conspiracy theories and sovereign citizen fetishes.
- mistrial9 3y ago> Digital identity is the key for scaling democracy up unintended consequences are the topic at hand right? In all the world's countries, which shows "democracy scaling up" ? The single largest country is called China, they use Digital ID for scaling.
- mariusor 3y agoNo, the topic at hand is a cryptographer finding vulnerabilities in a communication protocol and the originating body incorporating the findings (hopefully) in their fixes. And since it's about France, what does that have to do with China? Good technology can be used badly by bad people, I don't know if China does that, but I imagine that's what you mean to imply. Vague assertions like yours are not exactly supporting evidence.
- lxgr 3y agoMany EU countries, and the EU itself (with eIDAS) are rolling out digital identity schemes as well. I'm able to communicate with most government agencies of one European country digitally, as a result – definitely beats having to take a 10-hour flight or to at least find a printer and mail envelopes back and forth across the Atlantic, containing "physical signatures" that no company or government can realistically validate anyway.
- phatfish 3y agoChina is a democracy? That's news to me.
- mistrial9 3y agois it not obvious that China is not a Democracy? the point in the comment is that Digital Identity does not scale Democracy in that case, the largest case in the world.