Comment Neelie (Kroes)
Making speeches talk
[...] Like by ensuring safe trustworthy cloud services; imposing legal obligations to manage cyber risks; having effective systems to prove you are who you say you are online. Better cooperating and combining our strengths. Investing in research and innovation – including for, say, quantum computers and encryption technology. And with a vibrant European market providing the tools you need to stay secure. Ensuring the safeguards that mean people can trust big data and seize online opportunity.
this sentence is worrying. It should be clarified that "prove who you are online" is not a "good in itself", but is useful only in some cases (e.g. for eGovernment services). In other words, anonymity remains important.
David Osimo, 23/01/2014 10:15
I think it's just referring to this specific legal proposal -
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-a... - basically meaning that member states who already have some kind of eID would have to mutually recognise.
Jack Schickler, 23/01/2014 18:02
yes, I think so too, but it could be misinterpreted. I think simply adding "if and when needed" at the end of the sentence would clarify. Granted, it would not sound as nice in a speech
David Osimo, 23/01/2014 23:17