eIDAS: Building Trust or Invading Privacy?
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We analysed the new technical framework for the European Digital Identity Wallet, revealing severe shortcomings that threaten user privacy and contradict the regulation's intent.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/317047

in February 2024, the EU Parliament adopted the eIDAS regulation, creating the framework for a “European Digital Identity Wallet”. This digital Wallet will enable citizens to identify themselves in a legally binding manner, both online and offline, sign documents, login into websites and share personal data about them with others. Recently, the European Commission published the Architectural Reference Framework (ARF) 1.4 for the technical implementation of the Wallet.

The success of the EU Digital Identity Wallet depends on its ability to gain citizens’ trust and establish a resilient infrastructure in our current data-driven economy.

“However, after our analysis, we believe that this goal has been missed,” says the digital rights group Epicenter Works.

“We see severe shortcomings in the ARF that either contradict the regulation or ignore important elements of it. These issues, if left unaddressed, could significantly undermine user rights and privacy.”

  • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    I hate this, I don’t know about this specifically but usually it would maybe not be easy but doable to do things right because (FOSS) solutions exist but thanks to politics, bureaucracy and capitalism it always ends up as a giant trainwreck of bullshit (with weird glitches where they get it right once every thousand tries like with the Covid app in Germany).