As with the Proton payment network some 20 years ago, the Belgian state ceeded to all-powerful lobbying and weakened eID by e.g. disabling the encryption bit or by disallowing email signing outside of the state-sanctioned websites.
eIDs could have been wonderful little tools. Instead, they were forced on citizen's and now, we are facing an even worse setup with the Itsme app that links the smartphone to state services and degrades the owners of free, opensource or just rooted phones to second-class citizens by disallowing them access.
Some time ago Belgium also gave up its digital sovereignty by cancelling its Root CA. Instead, it now uses Digicert ROOT CA which is controlled by a US entity.
eIDs could have been wonderful little tools. Instead, they were forced on citizen's and now, we are facing an even worse setup with the Itsme app that links the smartphone to state services and degrades the owners of free, opensource or just rooted phones to second-class citizens by disallowing them access.
Some time ago Belgium also gave up its digital sovereignty by cancelling its Root CA. Instead, it now uses Digicert ROOT CA which is controlled by a US entity.