eIDAS: Building Trust or Invading Privacy?
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We analysed the new technical framework for the European Digital Identity Wallet, revealing severe shortcomings that threaten user privacy and contradict the regulation's intent.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/317047

in February 2024, the EU Parliament adopted the eIDAS regulation, creating the framework for a “European Digital Identity Wallet”. This digital Wallet will enable citizens to identify themselves in a legally binding manner, both online and offline, sign documents, login into websites and share personal data about them with others. Recently, the European Commission published the Architectural Reference Framework (ARF) 1.4 for the technical implementation of the Wallet.

The success of the EU Digital Identity Wallet depends on its ability to gain citizens’ trust and establish a resilient infrastructure in our current data-driven economy.

“However, after our analysis, we believe that this goal has been missed,” says the digital rights group Epicenter Works.

“We see severe shortcomings in the ARF that either contradict the regulation or ignore important elements of it. These issues, if left unaddressed, could significantly undermine user rights and privacy.”

  • 0x815@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Epicenter Works is a digital rights organizations based in Austria.

    • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, I read their about page. I wouldn’t trust them as a lone voice on something, but if other groups come to the same conclusion, sure. But mostly, I don’t trust articles with AI image headers. It makes it seem like the article is written by a bot.

      • 0x815@feddit.orgOPEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, they work in a huge network mainly in Europe. As always, we should never trust blindly, but Epicenter appears to do a solid work. I have been disagreeing with what they said in the last years on some incidents, but all in all they do a good work. At least that’s my opinion.

      • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I wouldn’t trust them as a lone voice on something, but if other groups come to the same conclusion, sure.

        As a Privacy nerd, I agree with the conclusions in the article, for what it’s worth. We do see a lot of “privacy” law proposals lately that are anything but.

        I don’t think things will get better, on this front, until the average person better understands privacy rights and risks.