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Re:EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for v... by throwaway4good on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:31AM (#27356015)
I think you read too much into this.

It is a service that will allow say a Dane to use Danish NemID instead of a Swedish bankid when working in Sweden.

And it is not for monitoring you. It is for authenticating you in a manner that is explicitly under your control.

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Re:EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for v... by inter_netuser on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:05PM (#27356678)
not monitoring yet.
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Re:EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for v... by throwaway4good on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:08PM (#27356741)
It really doesn’t have anything to do with monitoring. You are being monitored a plenty, just not via this eu initiative.
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Re:EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for v... by rorykoehler on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @01:20PM (#27358045)
If it can be used to monitor you it will be used to monitor you. Let’s not fool ourselves here.
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Re:EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for v... by emteycz on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @03:49PM (#27360278)
So how exactly will the auth request be impossible log/trace? And is it really going to be implemented that way?
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Re:EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for v... by inter_netuser on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:34PM (#27362820)
They are logged. These are just SAML federations, ForgeRock has a bunch of these rolled out across Europe.

They are logged, and law enforcement does get the logs on request.

Read the ToS.

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