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by roundabout-host 19 days ago
"only if you choose to share your personal data with either Google or Apple"?
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I don't think it's going to be any more convincing with that. At this point anyone I encounter in "normal" life already assumes that I and everyone else has and primarily uses a Google or Apple account.
How is that different from having a banking app installed? Or a government ID app?
I have neither. Phones are too much of a security liability to be linked into such sensitive realms of personal life.
What you can do with the ID app, you can also do on paper (if not with a Web service), except "age verification".
You can survive and be exist in society without both.