Il nuovo portafoglio digitale proposto dall’Irlanda: avviata la consultazione pubblica

No worthwhile innovations unless the stick of the EU is there it seems.

I want a fucking place to live

Knowing this government they will outsource it to Palantir

No issues if just for accessing public services, but this is the problematic part:
*It has also been suggested as an age-verification tool …*
That is how something sold as narrow and protective can turn into routine permission of online life…

Be handy having the birth certificate & driving license all in one place.

Just like when we don’t vote in referenda the way they want, they hold the vote again a few years later. By the way, all the terms and conditions we got for voting yes the second time have now been broken so someone should really inform the EU that that treaty is now invalidated and no longer legally binding.

When they got beaten in their attempts to bring in national biometric ID, now they’re forcing it in as digital ID a few years later.

The way people act on here like we’re living in Nineteen Eighty Four 🤣

When many aspects of your Identity become centralised into a digital ‘wallet’ the ruling class effectively removes all human element (from their point of view: friction) that would have traditionally framed your administrative endeavours. This space of negotiating or clarifying your situation, would simply not be there anymore, and this should be worrying to everyone.

It seems to me that this recent on-going focus on digitising everything would silence a lot of people and possibly open us to a form of (leaderless) authoritarianism we had never seen before.

Definitely against it, it’s a path down to authoritarianism. Once your identity, services, and access to basic things are all tied into a single digital system, it creates a level of control that governments could potentially abuse. It’s not about what they say it’ll be used for now it’s about what it could become later. We have seen in the past in the USA with the patriot act widespread surveillance of American citizens by the Obama administration, the HSE hacking where special category health data was stolen because the government didn’t have technology to safeguard it.

This needs caution, remember when (like him or not) Farage’s bank decided to ‘just cancel him’.

He then took them to court and won!, the bank apologise and their CEO later resigned.
They made false claims as to why they closed his bank account, and were involed in name calling, as shown in a Subject Acess Request.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farage_Coutts_bank_scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farage_Coutts_bank_scandal)

>Nigel Farage settled his dispute with NatWest Group over the closure of his bank account, and the terms of the settlement remain confidential (they paid him substantial damages). The controversy began when it was revealed that his account was closed partly due to his political views.

So if you engage in any type wrong thinking, and with shops gradually refusing cash, you’d could end up with nothing, a cancelled person, no digital wallet and no acess to goods nor services.

Also, on the other side, [Gina Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Miller), a pro-European Union, anti-brexit activist, had her bank account for her political party closed down by [Monzo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monzo) with no explanation.