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FLASH flash@primal.net 1 month ago
⚡️🤡🇪🇺 NEW - The EU's digital identity wallet apps require an Apple or Google account to function. A sovereign European ID system that can't run without US Big Tech. • Officials say Apple/Google were chosen "for security reasons" and cover the largest user base. • "Other ecosystems" support is only being studied, not built. • EU wants every state to have a working wallet by year-end. No country looks set to make it.
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FLASH flash@primal.net 1 month ago
To clarify, since this is getting mixed up: the Apple/Google account requirement is a platform dependency, not an authentication method. Two different layers. Authentication (how you prove your identity) is national: government eID, bank login, etc. That part is country-specific, and nobody's disputing it. The platform dependency is separate: the app itself needs an Apple or Google account to install and run, via things like Play Integrity and hardware attestation. An app can use purely Dutch or Greek eID for identity and still refuse to launch without Google Play Services. So "there's no single EU app, they're national" doesn't address the point. Whether it's 1 app or 27, the question is still: does the app run without a Big Tech account? For the ones flagged so far, including the Dutch NL Wallet, the answer is no.
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The_Mooner 1 month ago
Digital ID would be a dangerous Tool. But if the EU Shithole does it, it will be funny 😂
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Roboto 1 month ago
This will ultimately fail. What's worse case have 2 phones one runs this shit the other degoogled. Wait until collapse. Just make sure you are in a good community with a circular economy.
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Sugestor Ultra 1 month ago
I'm warning about hardware attestation, all the time. That's why they chose google and apple. Stand up people, wake the fuck up and start doing something, anything, before we all wake up in a hardware attested world of digital slavery. This is not a joke, go read how hardware attestation works and how it removes the control of data and apps from a hardware owner.
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