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Cthulhu_today at 8:37 AM1 replyview on HN

Then you sign in using your eID which is both highly secure and tied to your personal identity. Government services don't need 3rd party are-you-a-human verification, not when your account is tied to your identity.

(this is from the Netherlands where you can use digID [0] to sign into government services and ID-bound 3rd parties like insurance, mortgages, pensions etc)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiD


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someonebaggytoday at 9:19 AM

I thought recently there was a kerfuffle about DigiD being tied to an American data farming company