>>106035607>existing ID systems will be salivating at the money available by enabling other marketsThe EU's proposed digital wallet is a novel system based on zero-knowledge proofs enabled via some OAuth and/or OpenID standards.
Wallet apps will interface with the various existing national e-ID implementations to obtain a non re-identifiable limited-scope claim that is crytographically verifiable in a double-blind manner.
Existing ID systems need not apply. Any system that does less than zero-knowledge proofs and thus has the possibility of leaking actual personal data -- including stable online identifiers that allow for reidentification -- anywhere, is deemed unfit for purpose by the EU and online platforms cannot use it.
The EU itself is developing the entire thing open source; including a reference implementation of the verification backend.
Basically: all the identity provider middle-men are being cut out as unreliable. Which means all the spook-infested NGOs go with them.
They're not getting access to the EU's full corpus of citizen PII this way.