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"The risk of data abuse by commercial providers would undermine the effort to make digitalisation more democratic, they say."

It's as though citizens have no understanding of how contracts, oversight and regulations work.

If the government requires certain parameters to be kept, they will be.

The notion that these ID providers are going to 'abuse the data' is conspiratorially absurd to the extent that basic information control is written into the process.

If the financial incentives for 'abuse' don't exist, then really it's a matter of operational capability and pragmatism, in which case, private sector is an ok choice, just as it is for so many other things.

The government could feasibly do it, but there's no reason it can't be outsourced.

It's a bit short-sighted.