{"id":68204,"date":"2024-05-18T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68204"},"modified":"2024-05-18T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T16:30:41","slug":"belgium-and-hungary-launch-controversial-digital-ids-vaccine-passport-ahead-of-eu-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68204","title":{"rendered":"Belgium and Hungary Launch Controversial Digital IDs, Vaccine Passport, Ahead of EU Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Belgium and Hungary Launch Controversial Digital IDs, Vaccine Passport, Ahead of EU Regulations<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Belgium and Hungary are leading the way in launching digital ID wallets ahead of EU\u2019s eIDAS (\u201celectronic identification and trust services\u201d) 2.0 regulation and\u00a0EUDI Wallet<\/a>\u00a0coming into force later this month.<\/p>\n

In Belgium, the MyGov.be app, covering all of the country\u2019s federal public services, was launched on Tuesday, with the government promoting the digital identity as \u201csimplifying\u201d the use of its services, and \u201cmaking life easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, the authorities there are playing the convenience card \u2013 while downplaying the risks that come with this type of centralization of people\u2019s identities.<\/p>\n

The wallet, via \u201ceBox\u201d mailbox, gives access to government-issued documents, as well as 683 services, identity data, Covid vaccination records, and more.<\/p>\n

However, the success of the scheme is by no means guaranteed \u2013 on the one hand it is not mandatory, so people are free to decide not to use it.<\/p>\n

Judging by an opinion poll Deloitte carried out last year, \u201c71 percent of Belgians do not want a digital ID on their phone,\u201d\u00a0reports say<\/a>, adding that the same survey showed that 79 percent \u201cdo not want a mobile driver\u2019s license, while half refuse to fully digitize their IDs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEase of use\u201d is also how digital ID is pushed in Hungary, where the appropriate app will be made available for download as soon as this week, while the service will be fully operational from September.<\/p>\n

Enthusiastic reports about this development describe the digital ID program as \u201cinnovative,\u201d \u201chandy\u201d and \u201csaving costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, putting all of a person\u2019s data in one place and storing it in the cloud is advertised as something positive, instead of what opponents consider as scary \u2013 from the security standpoint alone.<\/p>\n

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Belgium and Hungary Launch Controversial Digital IDs, Vaccine Passport, Ahead of EU Regulations If you\u2019re tired of censorship and surveillance,\u00a0join Reclaim The Net. Belgium and Hungary are leading the way in launching digital ID wallets ahead of EU\u2019s eIDAS (\u201celectronic identification and trust services\u201d) 2.0 regulation and\u00a0EUDI Wallet\u00a0coming into force later this month. In Belgium, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1957,33879,29823,279,284,408,5570,33878,765,33416],"class_list":["post-68204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-belgium","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-digital-id","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-hungary","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-reclaim-the-net","tag-surveillance","tag-vaccine-passport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68205,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68204\/revisions\/68205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}