The digital ID standard behind mobile IDs bakes in remote data access that governments can quietly activate. Privacy activists are pushing back.Welcome to a new privacy-first initiative challenging the digital identity status quo, urging a sharp turn away from the surveillance-ready infrastructure embedded in mobile driver’s licenses.The campaign, called No Phone Home, brings together a broad alliance of civil liberties groups, privacy experts, technologists, lawmakers, and public officials who are resisting the ways digital IDs compromise people’s rights.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 3 Jun
These people looking for privacy have missed the plot, already! What is needed now is a total boycott of all smartphones capable of taking this shit. Why are they only going part way to the desired goal of no tracking info from phones? If you boycott the phones, pretty soon Apple, Samsung and etc. are on your side lobbying the proper people.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner OP 3 Jun
I'm a no-smartphone person!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 3 Jun
I don't have one, either. I guess if people don't mind being tracked they are splendid devices that give you a nice feeling in the neck over time, too.
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