[mindcrash]

Not just "internet security". There has been discussion that they want to use eIDAS for a lot of things like identification in general and even a health passport.

Consider that last thing. We have this thing called bodily integrity [1], which guarantees everybody has self-ownership regarding their body and thus what can be done with it.

However, in the COVID period, it was clear as day that those who govern us dont give a rats ass about something like bodily integrity and going as far as taking away freedom of movement in order to make people comply with injecting themselves with a - until this very day - experimental vaccine.

Now consider what TPTB could do with a powerful toy like eIDAS.

So no, it is not "just" about internet security. Its about slowly and surely stripping away every human right you have as a EU citizen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodily_integrity

[elric]

I'm not sure I understand the point you're trying to make. Few rights are absolute. We, as a society, obviously try to prevent people from harming one another. If you're infected with a dangerous pathogen, and you refuse to do something about it on account of "bodily integrity", you will end up violating other people's bodily integrity by infecting them. That's bad, and it would certainly be within "TPTB"'s rights to stop you.

As for vaccines being "experimental", they have saved many lives, and now that the dust has settled, they seem to have done very little harm.

This all sounds rather like conspiracy nonsense, which isn't to say that eIDAS isn't stupid, but silly conspiracy nonsense like this undermines potential real concerns with eIDAS.