Bis zum Jahr 2030 will die EU allen Bürger:innen eine „European Digital Identity Wallet“ (ID-Wallet) zur Verfügung stellen. Sie soll on- wie offline bei Verwaltungsgängen und Bankgeschäften, aber auch bei Arztbesuchen, Alterskontrollen oder beim Internetshopping zum Einsatz kommen.
(By 2030, the EU wants to provide all citizens with a “European Digital Identity Wallet” (ID wallet). It is intended to be used online and offline for administrative procedures and banking as well as medical visits, age verification, and internet shopping.)
The article (in German) is mostly about eIDAS 45
Cf. https://monero.town/post/1018961 Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security
(There are many English articles about it; see e.g.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/eu-digital-identity-framework-eidas-another-kind-of-chat-control )
Though not the main topic of the article, this “ID wallet” thing sounds disturbing. (EU politicians calls a normal wallet “unhosted wallet” and don’t like it very much.)
Not necessary the traditional system itself is hated; but in several countries, regulations are becoming more and more inconsistent, unreasonable, unfair, inconvenient. Some government may become increasingly more corrupt…
Yet I’m not necessarily too optimistic. If “they” become really serious, perhaps they can practically shut down privacy-focused crypto… Thoughts?
they can shut it down for normal people maybe, but history shows that u can never fully eradicate a movement
Pure P2P may survive. It’d be less convenient, though, if privacy coins were outlawed and business companies (e.g. hosting) couldn’t legally accept them!