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The problem is that it's becoming less and less of a possibility, and more and more of a hassle, since everyone else, including our dear elected governments build shit with the expectation you engage in the big tech ecosystem.
I've been using e/OS, which is an Android fork maintained by a Danish university, so Google stops messing with my phone. I've made the switch after realising that when I wanted to restart the phone (was urgent at the time) the power button has been remapped to AI.
Yet, after moving to Denmark, I realized that the government ID service specifically disallows that fork and enforces using Google Android. The Danish government trusts Google over leading Danish universities.
Living without that ID thing on my phone would be possible but would require me to do tons of personal appointments with different companies, including banking, phone contracts, internet, public transit and so on.
Large tech companies manipulating/bribing governments to require the use of their software is pretty new and certainly a danger to people who want to own their own things and have privacy.
Right now, these kinds of laws are being passed with little to now public input or knowledge. These laws seem innocuous to the average person (who uses those kinds of devices anyway) but they give these platforms way more power over your daily life. It should be discussed more, but there are always distractions.
Right now, for me, the loss is mostly in using NFC payments. There's no digital ID requirements that would force me onto a device in Google's attestation chain. But, I am very aware of the issue that you're talking about.
The stupid thing is that it's not even a law. IDK if there was even bribery involved.
It's just if you give the average state IT employee a switch that says "flip this to be more secure", 9 times out of 10 they will flip it.
This is just enshittification on the enterprise level.
Any time you see people talking about Digital ID, just know that the end of that entire chain of thought is the requirement to have a secure hardware device to store the IDs (usually in the form of some kind of signed keypairs).
This could be a standalone device (like a Onekey) but the big push by Apple/Google is to just let them store/manage the keys in their infrastructure and on their phones.
Like every other aspect of our technical lives, they will try to win by creating an entire solution that requires no work or effort on the part of the users (the government in this case) so that the government can get digital ID compliant without actually doing any work or research that would be required to find the best method of doing it themselves.
This has been the playbook for a few decades. It's why teenagers don't know how to rip MP3s or use Peer to Peer networks... that's hard to do, it's much easier to avoid having to learn that by just installing Spotify who take care of all of the streaming infrastructure and music sourcing for you. Now that there is a technical dependence on Spotify they can enshittify, add tiering, add ads, remove music, etc and their users no longer have the ability to leave them.