Please don’t underestimate how fucked “modern” citizens are. Privacy is no longer an easy choice.
You might see a banking app (including phone-based payments, using the phone as a card or using a payment app) as mere convenience, and to a large degree it is, but aside from that there are also national ID apps that are simply impossible to live without in some EU countries. There are exceptions for seniors and disabled folk, but even they miss out on some critical social access that’s just not realistic for eg. parents of school-age children.
Sure, you can not have a cell phone. Then you also can’t communicate with your kids’ teachers, or receive communication from them. Which will have… other consequences.
Please don’t underestimate how fucked “modern” citizens are. Privacy is no longer an easy choice.
You might see a banking app (including phone-based payments, using the phone as a card or using a payment app) as mere convenience, and to a large degree it is, but aside from that there are also national ID apps that are simply impossible to live without in some EU countries. There are exceptions for seniors and disabled folk, but even they miss out on some critical social access that’s just not realistic for eg. parents of school-age children.
the day I have to have a phone for an ID is the day I stop having a cellphone.
I already get wild looks when I tell people I don’t have a Facebook. I can only imagine their heads exploding when I say I don’t have a phone.
Sure, you can not have a cell phone. Then you also can’t communicate with your kids’ teachers, or receive communication from them. Which will have… other consequences.
already there. I either talk to them directly or email them. no biggie.