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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[-] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Ah, you can see clearly who gets which data with every authentication. It's logged and I can look it up on my portal.

Actually'', apart from ItsMe, I can see every time someone did any lookup on my online data with the federal government for the last 10 years. I even get to see their names.

There's no third party watching with ItsMe because the traffic is encrypted. The data is owned by the Federal government and the party that requests authentication gets to see what the are legally allowed to see and what you clear. With every authentication you get to see what info they request.

[-] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

So who gets to see then beside I guess your bank and the merchant site? You don't have to share anything specific, can be company names but if that would reveal some of your personal preference you can share type of economical actors (e.g. other shops, advertisers, insurances, etc).

[-] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

No, the data can't be used for other means than authentication.

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