{"id":535,"date":"2025-08-28T15:19:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/?p=535"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:21:18","slug":"switzerland-is-voting-on-digital-id-but-will-citizens-really-own-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/switzerland-is-voting-on-digital-id-but-will-citizens-really-own-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland is voting on digital ID. But will citizens really \u201cOwn\u201d\u00a0it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the Swiss referendum on digital ID approaches, one question deserves more attention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if people control their credentials, will they\u00a0feel\u00a0ownership of their digital identity?
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In the\u00a0new ACM Interactions blog, Liudmila Zavolokina argues that self-sovereign identity (SSI) risks becoming an\u00a0illusion of ownership. Complexity, lack of safety nets, and the need for institutional trust mean that sovereignty on paper doesn\u2019t always translate into trust in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To their credit, the Swiss government has done an excellent job in making digital ID a public debate, treating transparency and inclusiveness seriously. Now the challenge is to ensure systems are not only decentralized, but also usable, trustworthy, and flexible enough for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The link to the full text: \u201cThe illusion of ownership in self-sovereign identity\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the Swiss referendum on digital ID approaches, one question deserves more attention: Even if people control their credentials, will they\u00a0feel\u00a0ownership of their digital identity?In the\u00a0new ACM Interactions blog, Liudmila … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002891,"featured_media":537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}