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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Nah what we need is good privacy-focussed companies getting into the public IAM space.

You know how you can sign into stuff with your Google or Facebook account? And get a 2FA push to your phone?

Like that. Except by a company with a shred of ethics and morality. Like Proton.

I do also think that we all should have a cryptographically secure federally issued identity for official uses such as signing documents or signing into financial accounts and other things that must use your official identity, and not an online pseudonym. Like SSN but on a smartcard. Basically CAC or ECA but for general civilian use.

[–] brie 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Proton is already used for identity management: OTP via email. They'll implement OAuth if there's enough demand for it. A company's purpose is to be profitable, ethics side is largely irrelevant.

Many countries already have digital government ID: Australia, Estonia, Russia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

A company's purpose is to be profitable, ethics side is largely irrelevant.

Maybe so, but companies such as Proton's biggest asset is their reputation...a reputation of being privacy-focussed. Without that they are nothing, and they know that. As a result, they try to live up to that reputation as well as possible.

Being as it was started by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (among some of CERN's other founding fathers of the web) is just icing on the cake.

[–] brie 1 points 10 hours ago

Proton gives data to governments if requested. Why are you trying to shill it?