The afternoon didn't start better: we got a talk about the EUDI, with the implied idea that an "European ID" is automatically an example of digital sovereignty, when in fact what is being implemented isn't.

I could go further into it, but instead I'll leave here a link to the comment I was impelled to write on the EUDI project after the presentation:

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19#discussioncomment-15001433

The #EUDI panel was followed by Caroline Stage Olsen, Minister for Digital Affairs of Denmark. The tldr; of her keynote - which had two points of note: 1) "I support AI gigafactories" (because all that is shiny and new is something we should invest in), and "innovation is sovereignty" which is her way of saying that she wants to use the sovereignty topic not to talk about sovereignty but as an excuse to promote "innovation" - in that ideology brand that supports the idea that in order to innovate more we need to simplify and de-regulate...

The afternoon didn't start better: we got a talk about the EUDI, with the implied idea that an "European ID" is automatically an example of digital sovereignty, when in fact what is being implemented isn't.

I could go further into it, but instead I'll leave here a link to the comment I was impelled to write on the EUDI project after the presentation:

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19#discussioncomment-15001433

The #EUDI panel was followed by Caroline Stage Olsen, Minister for Digital Affairs of Denmark. The tldr; of her keynote - which had two points of note: 1) "I support AI gigafactories" (because all that is shiny and new is something we should invest in), and "innovation is sovereignty" which is her way of saying that she wants to use the sovereignty topic not to talk about sovereignty but as an excuse to promote "innovation" - in that ideology brand that supports the idea that in order to innovate more we need to simplify and de-regulate...

Zur Schweizer E-ID und ihrem Zusammenhang mit #EUDI: Ich freue mich, zu diesem tollen Artikel von @adfichter für @republik_magazin beigetragen zu haben, der gerade erschienen ist. Jetzt lesen!

https://www.republik.ch/2025/08/29/ein-klares-jein-zur-e-id

p.s. Enthält auch News aus meinem Privatleben.

About the online age-verification pilot in Europe, read on my updated about privacy in #EUDI

https://news.dyne.org/privacy-in-eudi/

Now is the time to focus on details! zero-knowledge is a double-edged sword. Until process isolation is granted for every execution of zero-knowledge algorithms, privacy-preserving technology won't protect us from mega-corporations spying on us.