New technical framework for the European Digital Identity Wallet (eIDAS) reveals severe shortcomings, threatening user privacy and contradicting the regulation's intent, rights group says
New technical framework for the European Digital Identity Wallet (eIDAS) reveals severe shortcomings, threatening user privacy and contradicting the regulation's intent, rights group says
We analysed the new technical framework for the European Digital Identity Wallet, revealing severe shortcomings that threaten user privacy and contradict the regulation's intent.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/317047
in February 2024, the EU Parliament adopted the eIDAS regulation, creating the framework for a "European Digital Identity Wallet". This digital Wallet will enable citizens to identify themselves in a legally binding manner, both online and offline, sign documents, login into websites and share personal data about them with others. Recently, the European Commission published the Architectural Reference Framework (ARF) 1.4 for the technical implementation of the Wallet.
The success of the EU Digital Identity Wallet depends on its ability to gain citizens' trust and establish a resilient infrastructure in our current data-driven economy.
"However, after our analysis, we believe that this goal has been missed," says the digital rights group Epicenter Works.
"We see severe shortcomings in the ARF that either contradict the regulation or ignore important elements of it. These issues, if left unaddressed, could significantly undermine user rights and privacy."
I can't say I'm shocked. But I am disappointed.
I would be very worried if this was 'final, and now we will do it as written' but it seems to be just another iteration.the critique is great and I just hope they listen.
I am not shocked, but i'd save disappointed for when they try to do it and noone uses it because of these reasons.
I’m not gonna trust the headline of an article with an AI image from a place called epicenter.works.
Epicenter Works is a digital rights organizations based in Austria.
I started to highlight bits to cut out and highlight as the key points, but it became pretty quickly that that link already is the executive summary. It's already basically in outline form, and a super quick read.
You don't need to rely on the headline.
We have this in Denmark, and when it works, you'll all love it.
It's soooo easy to use, and it's also a very secure way it's implemented, because we have 2FA for everything important.