I’m a bit sad the referendum passed as the law was creating a regulated environment were anyone could start an ID provider and other providers would be forced to interoperate. Basically it mandated a distributed protocol. The alternative to my dream of having a cooperative of my choice handling my metadata seems will be to have the state know everything about me. Let’s see how it will play out. Maybe we will put some privacy by design concepts in the implementation.

On the plus side all the lobbyist that were involved in this story have been recalled to order.

The irony of privacy is that encrypting all data at rest (true privacy) requires ubiquitous identifiers. Meaning a central authority issuing those identifiers.