Europe's sovereign digital ID needs Google's blessing to trust your phone (waag.org)
The EU's digital identity wallet uses Google Play Integrity to vouch for a phone, which rejects de-Googled Android as untrusted. Switzerland uses Android's plain Hardware Attestation API instead; Italy and the Netherlands wired in Play Integrity unconditionally.
A Waag researcher argues that route breaches the Digital Markets Act. In the thread, the developer of the Fenrir protocol predicts nothing changes until an antitrust lawsuit lands.
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