Switzerland narrowly approves plan for digital ID

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@Onscreen5341

And how should a physical ID work for SSO logins?

My claim is not that physical ID should work for SSO logins. I don’t even know what SSO means.

My claim is simply that if governments say that physical and digital IDs are equivalent and accepted in the same places, and it turns out not to be true, then they lied and were deceiving their constituents.

@Onscreen5341

No, because the ID-Austria as well as the E-ID and E-ID (Germany) are not documents. They are a IDP services.

What is IDP?

Are digital IDs not digital documents ie digital versions of physical documents?
In other words they are digital records of physical records. Do you disagree?

@Onscreen5341

I am just saying that on principle, if any government says that digital ID is not mandatory but then prevent people who don’t want to opt in to from working, then the government lied

That’s a good point.

I am glad we can agree on that.

@Onscreen5341

That’s an entirely different topic and I agree that is worrying, and I have my own terrible experience (Amsterdam) with it, but at least here in Austria every shop needs to accept cash.

I was just trying to make a comparison to illustrate my point because I think the issue is similar, and people may have a better understanding with the cash analogy. It’s possible it doesn’t fit perfelctly, but I think it’s similar enough.