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Fact : what's really behind the Swiss E-ID (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by harfang@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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End of September, Switzerland will vote for E-ID. A big threat for our privacy as it will widely used for tons of new use cases.

Behind the government pitch of an "open source project, completely optional" hides big tech industry... Which will make it mandatory to access their services.

What are your thoughts on that ?

#Switzerland #Privacymatters

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[–] harfang@slrpnk.net 2 points 20 hours ago

That's a trap