EU Set To Unveil Plans For Bloc-Wide Digital Wallet (reuters.com) 39
The European Union (EU) is set to unveil plans for a bloc-wide digital wallet on Wednesday, following requests from member states to find a safe way for citizens to access public and private services online, the Financial Times reported. Reuters reports: The app will allow citizens across the EU to securely access a range of private and public services with a single online ID, according to the FT report on Tuesday. The digital wallet will securely store payment details and passwords and allow citizens from all 27 countries to log onto local government websites or pay utility bills using a single recognized identity, the newspaper said, citing people with direct knowledge of the plans.
The EU-wide app can be accessed via fingerprint or retina scanning among other methods, and will also serve as a vault where users can store official documents like the driver's license, the newspaper reported. EU officials will enforce a structural separation to prevent companies that access user data from using the wallet for any other commercial activity such as marketing new products.
The EU-wide app can be accessed via fingerprint or retina scanning among other methods, and will also serve as a vault where users can store official documents like the driver's license, the newspaper reported. EU officials will enforce a structural separation to prevent companies that access user data from using the wallet for any other commercial activity such as marketing new products.
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No single set of laws is able to create livable, tenable, fair conditions for all people and all cultures.
This is because people are not equal in their talents, skills, strengths and weaknesses and a sizable part of that is genetic in origin. People who are equal are not free. People who are free are not equal. Not all cultures are equal. Not all religions are equal. Not even the natural surroundings and resources are equal. Not even the weather and the local climate.
No set of laws is applicable to all cult
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Now only the internet, credit cards, the financial system, the international flight system, the united nations and every other global system to go. /s
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that's because you're an idiot.
The UK is geographically required to have EU as its largest trading partner, only now the UK has far less say in EU standards.
So basically, you have LESS sovereignty than you did before you fucking moron
I do not think you know the meaning of the word... (Score:1)
"sovereignty"
Historically, the UK had huge trading ties to plenty of other places than the EU, and part of being sovereign is that the UK gets to negotiate with the EU on such things, rather than paying much of the bill for it and then being constantly out-voted. Ever hear the phrase "the sun never sets on the British empire"? The UK has rarely had only mainland Europe to trade with. The US also has huge trading ties with the EU, and yet the EU cannot dictate that the US participate in this anti-individual
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Right back at you.
First of all, the UK has been sovereign the whole time. Otherwise leaving the EU had been impossible.
Second, "being constantly out-voted" is a flat out lie. Over 90% of the things the UK voted for have passed and for the rest the UK usually had a temper tantrum until the other members gave in.
The only reason the UK wasn't able to trade well as a member of the EU was because, frankly, the UK is shit at trading, having been a net importer for decades and decades. Plundering other countries w
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"First of all, the UK has been sovereign the whole time"
No it wasn't.
Recently, a European Courts decision (related to Romania, but it should apply equally to all EU states) has said that the national courts of law should judge based on the letter and spirit of the European Union laws when they are in contradiction with national laws and rules (even when there is an interpretation contrary to EU laws made by the Constitutional Court of Romania).
Basically, when you are a EU member you are forced to apply - na
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The only reason the UK wasn't able to trade well as a member of the EU was because, frankly, the UK is shit at trading, having been a net importer for decades and decades. Plundering other countries was the only way the British were able to prosper for a long time and after the empire was gone things really started to suck. This is why the UK begged to join the EU in the first place, having an economy half the size of the French economy at that time.
Documentation for the economy size claim, please. From what I can find the UK had a PPP GDP pretty much identical to that of France in 1973: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] - otherwise I believe it is fair to assume that you are lying.
And it is plain out ridiculous to claim that a country is "shit at trading" because they are a net importer. Learn some macroeconomics.
But honestly, I have celebrated when the UK has left. Just wish Poland and Hungary would follow suit, being crappy EU members as well.
I believe you are right in that more countries will leave in the coming decades as a slowly disintegrating EU increases the taxation of the
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The UK lost a huge amount of sovereignty when it left the EU.
Look at the shitty one-sided trade deal that Australia has forced the UK to accept. It's basically the end of framing in Britain, the government has actually put a plan in place to wind it down. Pay farmers to retire, help them sell off their land.
The UK gained sovereignty within its own borders (Score:2)
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That is simply a lie. The EU vaccine procurement scheme did not prevent any member states getting vaccines themselves. Had the UK still been a member it could have acted in exactly the same way that it did anyway, except with extra doses from the procurement scheme on top.
The EU's mistake was trying to be fair, exporting some vaccines and expecting supposedly friendly nations to do likewise. The UK didn't.
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That is simply a lie. The EU vaccine procurement scheme did not prevent any member states getting vaccines themselves. Had the UK still been a member it could have acted in exactly the same way that it did anyway, except with extra doses from the procurement scheme on top.
The EU's mistake was trying to be fair, exporting some vaccines and expecting supposedly friendly nations to do likewise. The UK didn't.
Yes, it did initially. Or as the independent report from the UK Vaccine Taskforce wrote in December 2020: "It would also not have been possible for us to participate whilst also pursuing negotiations with individual vaccine suppliers."
https://assets.publishing.serv... [service.gov.uk]
And no the EU's mistake was not trying to be fair but to get the vaccines on the cheap without considering that this would mean a delay in the deliveries that would cost much more than the expenses saved on cheaper vaccines (the cost of the vac
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the UK is shit at trading
Laugh. On which fucking planet do you live?
The UK built an empire on trade and economically outperforms its population size, its geographical area and its natural resources because of trade. Other countries wish they had British competence and reputation.
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The transportation "costs" by sea is limited more by the capacity/price to load/unload, and very much less by distance travelled.
As such, the thing only commerce with the EU can provide is "same day delivery via trucks".
Ship-based delivery (via containers) will take more than that (based on the rate of loading/unloading thousands of containers in a port).
And aircraft-based delivery from US/Canada only takes several extra hours as compared to - let's say - Italy.
And now that the United Kingdom has left EU, u
Any bets on how soon it gets hacked? (Score:2)
I predict much entertainment.
Holy hell what could possibly go wrong?! (Score:1)
A single online repository for everything personal.
Don't worry, they will make sure it has no bugs and is perfectly secure because there is a long history of flawless apps.
Biometrics have problems (Score:2)
https://digitalcommons.imsa.ed... [imsa.edu]
https://www.biometricupdate.co... [biometricupdate.com]
https://www.biometricsinstitut... [biometricsinstitute.org]
https://www.bbc.com/news/world... [bbc.com]
Not surprising (Score:3)
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If I hadn't had my Freedom of Movement rights ripped away from me I'd be very happy about this. Anything that makes it easier to travel and work in different EU countries is a good thing.
And when a policeman "acccidentally" steps on it (Score:2)
You lose your ID and become a non-person.
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You lose your ID and become a non-person.
Please don't project your American fantasies on the rest of the world. Many in Europe have a great relationship with law enforcement. We sure as hell don't go around teaching our kids not to talk to them, and those kinds of "accidents" very quickly get police officers in actual trouble with actual punishment which I know would be unheard of in the USA.
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Many in Europe have a great relationship with law enforcement. We sure as hell don't go around teaching our kids not to talk to them, and those kinds of "accidents" very quickly get police officers in actual trouble with actual punishment which I know would be unheard of in the USA.
europe is big. i live in an "european" country and wouldn't trust law enforcement for anything, if only because most of them (starting with the top cadres) are hardcore rightwing nationalist nutjobs with a nearly psychotic inclination for gratuitous violence and a great deal of practical impunity, not much unlike in the us. for the record, i live in spain, you must have heard about us lately ;-)
actually, my reasons for favoring eec membership in the late 80s and later voting the european consitution were ne
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Typically those that expect personal gain from Surveillance State:
https://www.reddit.com/r/consp... [reddit.com]
What could go wrong? (Score:2)
File this under "what could go wrong"...
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It's about surveillance, not mere interest rate:
https://www.reddit.com/r/consp... [reddit.com]
excellent (Score:2)
Excellent. This will enable bloc-wide hacks.