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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by ori_b on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @12:35PM (#46123894)
> How is it a permission system? It's a way to prove your identity safely, online.

Can someone revoke your ability to prove your identity? To pick an example, say, the far right wins an election and decides that trans people need to go back to their birth genders, and revokes the validity for the identifiers of anyone that has transitioned.

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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by vablings on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @12:53PM (#46124132)
This has already happened without digital ID ?
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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by ori_b on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @01:39PM (#46124751)
Sounds like a wonderful argument for centralizing it and making it a single button that a bureaucrat has to push.
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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by expedition32 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:25PM (#46127078)
We have a democratic system in place that decides what the government looks like.

If you live in a country that runs the risk of being captured by fascists or religious fanatics digital ID is the least of your problem.

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