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Yes. This article doesn't provide any actual conserns. Government needs good way to reliably identify its citizens if it wants to provide online services for t
by kukkamario 3y ago
Yes. This article doesn't provide any actual conserns.
Government needs good way to reliably identify its citizens if it wants to provide online services for them. It has to be strong identification anyway because most online services that government provides are sensitive.
Unless this is used for some more malicious purpose than login in to do taxes, I don't see any issue with this. They seem to be allowing it to be used by commercial entities, which might be more concerning, but not necessarily. Depends on what is shared and how authentication is handled. Many commercial entities anyway need your actual identity (like banks) it is much better that instead every single company collecting all information they only need basic information and can use the government service to handle identity verification.
- jruohonen 3y ago> They seem to be allowing it to be used by commercial entities, which might be more concerning, but not necessarily. I think this might be what the common people are afraid of. While I don't use social media, I'd suppose many people wouldn't feel comfortable to explicitly disclose their identities to the all-devouring global companies. Another thing might be a requirement for identity verification in app stores, which is another story related to other regulatory proposals.
- janosdebugs 3y ago> Many commercial entities anyway need your actual identity (like banks) I wish. Digital signatures (Handysignatur) have been available to the masses in Austria for 10+ years, but I have yet to see one of the big banks being able to accept a digitally signed document. It's still the "visit your bank in person" process.