EU Digital Wallet

   Chris Price on Oct 10 11:19:44

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EU Digital Identity Wallet Pilots Roll Out Under the Radar

BY Stavroula Pabst OCTOBER 6, 2023 TECHNOLOGY 8 MINUTE READ

Hat tip Ad Lib on TAI at MeWe. From the article:

"As 2023 continues, the European Commission appears busy developing and running pilots for its EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI), which it intends to make available to all EU citizens in the near future. But while the European Commission (EC) boasts the prospective EUDI’s convenience, security, and wide range of prospective use cases in daily life, what’s less discussed is the tool’s potential for a bevy of ethical and surveillance-related issues."

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"The EU Digital Wallet, often referred to as the EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI), is slated to be offered to the European public in the years ahead. According to the European Commission, “EU Digital Identity Wallets are personal digital wallets allowing citizens to digitally identify themselves, store and manage identity data and official documents in electronic format. These may include a driving licence, medical prescriptions or education qualifications.”

As legislation streamlining their slated use across Europe is finalized, the European Commission is advancing its efforts to roll out EUDIs amongst the general European public, where over 250 private corporations and public authorities are participating in four large-scale pilot projects. At the time of writing, the EU has invested €46 million into these pilots.

Indeed, a wide range of use cases are already being tested in the EUDI pilot projects. These include using the wallets to access government services, register, and activate SIM cards for mobile network services, sign contracts, facilitate travel, and present educational credentials. All together, these use cases suggest the Digital Identity Wallets’ prospective utilization across a wide range of services essential to daily life."

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See the word 'essential' there?

My thoughts: A voluntary Digital ID will become mandatory upon sufficient adoption, which doesn't have to be a majority of the target population. That will be leverage to force a Central Bank Digital Currency on everyone. Retailers will be persuaded to adopt it because early adopters will insist upon it for convenience. Then the State will cudgel the rest into using it, at which point it will become the exclusive medium of exchange. Once that happens, a majority of the population will quickly find themselves incorporated through necessity. The initial slow march of the early adopters and influencers will become the forced march into the digital gulag. Then a Chinese style Social Credit System can be unleashed. Digital ID is an essential first step, the cornerstone of near totalitarian control of the populace.

EU Digital Identity Wallet Pilots Roll Out Under the Radar

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Russell Gordon on Oct 11, 2023 8:52 PM
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That sounds about right. They won't leave much room to resist.

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Tetris on Oct 12, 2023 10:11 AM
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Ironic as well since the EU has historically had BETTER privacy laws than the US, but has a government-trusting populace, so I expect digital currency will be adopted with barely a complaint. I hope they surprise me because we are next when it goes well.

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