Biggest threat for our privacy is real in Switzerland !

#EID #Switzerland #Privacy

  • AliSaket@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Please don’t jump to conclusions. A well implemented eID can even improve privacy compared to the alternative of accessing big parts of the internet by trusting private companies to handle sensitive information like photos of physical IDs.

    There is something in cryptography called Zero Knowledge Proof. With it only minimal information is exchanged and no party can tell anything about the person accessing it, i.e. the website who you are or profiling your ID, nor the verifier or issuer what you’re doing.

    Without knowing how the eID will be implemented, you can’t just make such blanket statements. Want to know the details? It is open source and you can look up any technical details as well as the software code publicly.

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      10 hours ago

      Zero Knowledge Proof in combination with the SOLID project would be the best situation

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Or just not have bullshit age verification to begin with. 98% of anything I do online shouldn’t need proof of who I am. Right down to my email provider.

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        Deanonymization isn’t about age gate bullshit, it’s about doxxing you. Think of the children is and has always been BULLSHIT, children are the enemy, children are merely human shield and Israel shows what is to be done with human shields.

        If an entity successfully deploys deanonymizing technology and profits, they will outbreed non-deanonymizing entities.

        Therefore, anything that DARES to employs this technology is the enemy and the enemy is to be EXTERMINATED.

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          Think of the children is and has always been BULLSHIT

          hell yeah!

          children are the enemy

          Ah, we’re having a normal one today 😆

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          May I remind you that you were a child back in the day.

          But yeah, it goes really bad when the govt. starts to replace the parent’s duty for child’s safety.

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      It can be implemented well but often isn’t. Likely eID will force you to use an mobile app (no website or Linux app, yay) that is only available on Apple’s app store or GPlay. And if you want to run a degoogled android ROM good luck with that when they force Play Integrity. Basically shoving everyone into either the Apple or Google walled garden along with the complementary spyware of both gardens and also screwing anyone who uses a non-smart phone either out of choice or circumstance.

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        The country’s official app for COVID immunity certificates or whatever they were called was available on F-Droid at the time.

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        That would be my biggest worry as well. Although this isn’t specified yet, I assume that they would develop the software for Google/Apple. IIRC the Digitale Gesellschaft, a privacy advocacy group, has mentioned this as feedback about a year ago. I don’t know what was done with that though. Other issues were included in the development plan though.

        Also: With how this law is worded, no one is forced to use an eID. You can go the old fashioned way and e.g. go to the traffic office in person.

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      exactly, and if I don’t like it I won’t use it. managed to live without a phone for some months so living without an eID will be possible too

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      to the alternative of accessing big parts of the internet by trusting private companies

      Let me stop you right there, how about no to that, and no to whatever EID is too.

      And anything that does, fire, that’s my solution ? Want EID ? Eat fire.

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          In most Web3 blockchains ZeroKnowledgeProof aren’t proof. They often only have the succinctness of the proof and this is enough for the marketing team.

          Also there is many things valuable in modern cryptography thanks to Bitcoin and other chains, blockchain and crypto are buzzwords for sure but that doesn’t mean that i’s 100% BS.