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by Aerroon 1672 days ago
I'm saying it'll go even further than that though. If you want to use the service you will have to authenticate through this method. This is pretty much as perfect as it gets for any company trying to vacuum up data, because they will be able to uniquely identify every user. It's effectively the end of privacy by obfuscation, because you will have to identify yourself.
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Yes, the current regulation is targeted at government sites authenticating citizens, but the goal with these revisions is to require VLOPs to support this, along with allowing them the ability to require this for all websites. The original roadmap called out by the European Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) suggests a long-term goal of making this mandatory, effectively reviving the idea of the “Internet drivers license” (for users) and “Authorized domestic website” (for servers).

Source: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/qualified-website-a...

They can already do that though, nothing is stopping them from adding this to their sites right now. EU already has e-id for people and companies can use that if they want.