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by sajithdilshan 18 days ago
What you’re proposing works only if the government is always trustworthy and abiding by the rules. But there has been cases that ICE agents in US was able to track down people from their social media posts and in the past Nazis used the address registration lists to track down Jews for deportation to concentration camps.

We don’t know what EU would become in 5 to 10 years in the future, and I would rather not have any identification information about me or family being stored by a government body or any other party that can track/link me or my family members
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wsng 18 days ago
They have this information anyway if you have an EU passport or an identity card. The government app allows you to share selected properties of these documents with third parties.
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sajithdilshan 18 days ago
It’s not only government shares that info, the government can keep track on with which parties they shared that info and for what purpose.

As an example if I’m obliged to share my ID data via government to open a twitter account how would I know that the government would not link my twitter account to my ID and later use that info keep track of me and prosecute?

People would think that it would never happen, but not long ago that actually happened in East Germany. The Stasi kept track/files on almost every East German and this would be a digital version of the same thing

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wsng 18 days ago
The app is open source, and it doesn't do that.

I agree that governments should minimize collection of their citizen's data. I just don't see where it is supposed to happen in this case.

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sajithdilshan 18 days ago
What would you do that, they start with open source app, make the online is mandatory and once it’s established and mandated, then they closed source the app and implement data collection?

There is no guarantee that the app would stay open source and under public scrutiny forever. Governments have done way shady things in the past. Given the recent push for chat control, I would never trust anything put out by EU.

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joquarky 18 days ago
Anyone else remember when RFK Jr wanted an autism registry?
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