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The Deeper Issues with Centralized Digital IDs
- Global push towards centralized digital identity wallets, such as the EU's EUDI initiative, raises concerns about surveillance and discrimination.
- Reports highlight risks of mandatory ID wallets undermining data protection principles and leading to institutionalized exclusion for the digitally marginalized.
- Citizens in countries like Denmark and Estonia already face consequences like losing access to essential services due to centralized digital IDs.
- Renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier warns that centralized identity systems enable mass surveillance and abuse.
- Centralized digital IDs create a total dependence on the system with identity becoming a tool of control and gatekeeping.
- There are concerns that age-verification laws could evolve into widespread ID mandates across various platforms, leading to potential exclusion.
- Financial deplatforming based on political reasons could now extend to denying access to critical infrastructure with revoked credentials.
- SourceLess Labs Foundation proposes alternative models for digital identity focusing on individual sovereignty, privacy, and functionality without centralized control.
- The goal is to have systems that offer access and functionality without being dependent on centralized authorities.
- 2025 is about facing the consequences of centralized digital IDs, determining whether they will serve individuals or individuals will serve them in the next decade.
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