[cess11]

I need the bank's eID-application to authenticate against pretty much all of the public sector, and when I buy tobacco online.

The banks were many years ago allowed to develop an electronic identification system and they now totally dominate in this space, and that's what the public sector generally supports.

It's the 'worse than Soviet' kind of nasty that tend to emerge from liberalist oligarchies.

[medo-bear]

Seems like a situation that necessitates having 2 phones. Wouldn't surprise me if this soon becomes illegal

[jksflkjl3jk3]

What country is that? Sounds horrible.

[cess11]

Sweden. We have 'owner families' dominating our economy and politics, and things have been rotting fast over the past thirty years or so. I'm unlikely to relocate though, at least not until the NATO membership pulls us into open conflict.

It's a decent place to run a company though.

[medo-bear]

As a fellow person dreading conscription into someone else's conflict, it might be too late by then

[cess11]

Yeah. I've been drafting and revising relocation plans for years, so if it seems to heat up or kids might be conscripted we'd probably manage to leave in an orderly manner within a couple of months.

I'm probably too old to get conscripted even if I were to botch my predictions, I'm old enough to have done both obligatory service and a couple of military employments and been placed in and culled from the 'war placement' registry.