| From: Alex Kink via talk <[email protected]> | For my Estonian dealings, I've been signing documents (any file for that | matter) electronically since 2003. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card
Certainly Estonia has been the leader. | I saw some nut job at an intersection in Mississauga the other day | holding a banner against digital identity in Canada. That guy was probably one of the people who think that there is a conspiracy (or a few) to impose a World Government on us. That's spill-over from the US. For the US, that would be a downgrade -- the US is close to a world government itself and yet only US Citizens get democratic control over it. The result for Canadians would be different. We need a hierarchy of governements to deal with issues at different scales. We do have some world-scale governance but it isn't very effective. A "digital identity" could be a single point of failure or attack. We need to be careful. I seem to remember that Estonia's system was hacked. Of course the current non-system is regularly hacked. --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
