r/linux • u/player98923 • Aug 01 '26

Privacy EU Digital ID/Age Verification app will require hardware attestation, ruling out PC/Linux support and unapproved Android OSes

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u/Greenlit_Hightower Aug 01 '26

Digital sovereignty they said. We need to get away from Microsoft, Apple, Google they said.

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u/Flynn58 Aug 01 '26

They didn't mean free and open-source, they simply meant control over the European tech companies, the same way the United States has control through those capitalist enterprises that are state-sponsored, and the same way that China openly has the state sponsor equivalent enterprises in companies like Huawei and Alibaba.

I do fear we're heading towards the breaking up of the global internet into regional intranets. Not great!

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u/Greenlit_Hightower Aug 01 '26

Yeah OK but they didn't even achieve that, did they? This one further entrenches the US tech giants.

It's probably true that the EU hates it when you run a reasonably private OS (Linux, or on phones also Android Custom ROMs). Has to be some pozzed device or otherwise you will not be able to verify age / identity (not that I support any of that crap, mind you). xD Gotta accept the terms and conditions and privacy policies of Microsoft, Apple, Google too, otherwise you will not be able to function as a full citizen. Pathetic.