The EU has waved away a common digital wallet. We can't risk privacy, say Pirates of the Czech Republic

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The EU has waved away a common digital wallet. We can't risk privacy, say Pirates of the Czech Republic

The European Parliament in a week approved plans to create an EU digital identity, allowing people to identify and verify themselves online. In this way, citizens of the Member States could simply log in to the authorities, replace documents with digital ones or use a single European digital wallet. According to experts and politicians, the novelty brings considerable simplification, but also concerns about the security of personal data or loss …