I agree that the legislation need to be done properly, and be of high enough quality. But there is a lot of EU states, that have had these kind of systems for a

I agree that the legislation need to be done properly, and be of high enough quality. But there is a lot of EU states, that have had these kind of systems for a long time, and would have experience with the pitfalls of this. If the EU manages to ruin eID in memberstates, with this legislation, that will probably enrage every citizens in countries that have them, let's hope the bureaucrats aren't that dumb. Since the article was in the context of EU, I was commenting in the context of countries in it, or comparable to it. I'm sure you are right. A bad government will be able to turn anything, including something like this, into a bad thing.