Post #3392655
2026-06-19 10:43 UTC
@_elena@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I don't even understand how this thing works. They claim to have no access to the user's identity data and that it stays local on the device. So why do they need you to scan your passport while there are countless ways to authenticate anonymously?
In a press report they say that the goal is to confirm you're human without revealing who you are, yet in the very next sentence they say that they encourage a culture where users engage under their real names, WTF?
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social 2026-06-19 15:24
@bladecoder@androiddev.social @_elena@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Theoretically you can first confirm the loop with the device (that's the qr code stuff) and then use its camera to scan the scan code on your id document. Then this could be looked up in the standard way (probably varying degrees of access to your government's API) to get "temporary" access to your ID info. Then it can do whatever comparing it needs via face scan, which doesn't work well, to validate the person and device together....