I'm in favour of it.

Contrary to the last time this was proposed, the government is in control of it instead of private corporations.

This will also be an alternative to any of the current online ID verification, which involve sending photos of your ID, videos of it and videos of yourself to some random third party for verification.

You can not just say that it is a threat to privacy. Its design improves privacy as we finally can ID ourselves, where it has always been required, without actually giving our identity to online services.

Am I witnessing democracy right now ? Wow it's like people collectively decide about key topics, amazing. Go Switzerland !

I think avoiding functioneren creep will be a certain issue.

Belgium has such an e-id for nearly 10 years now. It works pretty good and acces to your personalia data is granular.

If only age verification is needed, the request will only grant you birth date.

Comanies that want to use it need to be vetted and their acces to your data is centrally regulated.

https://www.itsme-id.com/en-BE

I have not yet looked into it.

I will vote in favour if:

• The E-ID platform is controlled by the government and is fully open source
• Platforms only get a single binary information for age verification if the person is old enough or not and does not get any identifiable information.
• The government platform does not get any info about what service is doing the request. So the government controlled ID platform cant log what service the person uses.

If any of these points are not fulfilled with the planned implementation I will have to weigh the risks.

In Belgium we do have e-ID and we had it for years.

If in any of the circles there is only BigTech then indeed you are right it is a threat.

In Belgium though I can access my official document with some of these (honestly I don't remember which, but AFAIR It'sMe is one option) but more importantly there are some options with some decoupling, e.g. SMS (arguable as one must have a phone number usually via BigTelco) but, last and not least :

• a card reader with your physical ID card and its chip with https://eid.belgium.be/en/what-eid which has had Linux packages for years
• just learned about it yesterday which is why I'm excited to clarify this, a 2-step authentification app which does NOT have to be from BigTech, e.g. Ente Auth https://ente.io/auth/ which is FOSS and available on F-Droid

which means as long as at least one of these alternative is available then IMHO we can get some of the benefits without the centralization risk.

private ids where always the scope of the privacy movement. However, it may as such present other challenges which can include age based discrimination. It as such must be implemented wisely.

Age is already being weaponised against us (child protection, etc), this shouldn't be like that - We can already see what kind of power governments hold. Ageism is what will ultimately destroy us.