Coming to a website near you this summer: the European Commission is close to a ‘solution’ that could force people to use their government-issued ID to get online. EDRi and EFF’s concerns about threats to everyone’s privacy and data protection, a chilling effect on access to information, and digital exclusion – harming the already most marginalised in society - remain unsolved.
Nope. Happy to identify myself with credentials to specific service or content providers, but not for general internet access.
For example, in Australia I use a government issued identification service to identify myself to government sites, like our tax office, or medical cover. That’s fine.
Obviously not going to use a government id number to identify myself to facebook or whatever though.