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Certainly. I'd argue (and I have been) that we should have done these things a long time ago. I live in Denmark, we have a digital national ID called mitID. You can use it without the official app, but it's annoying, and similar to all other public apps (we have a social security card app, a drivers license app, a doctors app, an app for communicating with schools and daycares and so on) you need Google Play or Apple Store to use them. So even if you as a private citizen want to run a FairPhone with /e/OS then you can't do that and also run any public app.

Even without actual political interference, it's slightly annoying that we bind our public services into having a Google or Apple account.



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