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Added: Afaik, EU institutions are developing a new legislation for a Euroepean digital future containing biometrics, digital identity and Internet safeguards. The GDPR is a basis for this legislation, so privacy safeguards shouldn't be an issue. The existing discussion is about the interpretation/ backdoor abuse of the issuing and handling of (root)certificates.of websites, described in art 45.

Now these certificates are done by businesses and as per 2023 eIDAS EU proposal they should be done by EU and or memberstates. This latter regulation drew the concern of privacy watchdogs. According to the EU itself and the actors involved, it's rather something more about finding the correct legislative terms, then about the intention to enabling " mass surveillance ". At this moment the new law hasn't been adopted, as they are still in full discussion mode about the correct version. Also I'm happy about the privacy watchdogs which help contribute to a better legislation . It's an ongoing discussion and (democratic) process.

here the new open letter with critique as per nov 2023 towards eIDAS 2.0

another letter per dec 2023 from the University KU Leuven.