Also another relevant source, there was a track about digital wallets at FOSDEM 2025. https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/wallets/

Thanks for the input. Are there concrete parts of the EUDI design that’s fascistic or just the whole thing?

There’s certainly bad ways to do a digital ID like in the UK where it looks like the design “phones home”, see EFF link above. However, the EUDI relies on cryptographically signed certificates and a Certificate Authority chain of trust. Whether you’re offline/online your phone would only present cryptographically signed files for authentication. Quote: “Finally, measures are taken to prevent Users from being tracked by Relying Parties, PID Providers, or Attestation Providers.”

As mentioned I’m already forced to use a couple of identification apps on Android. An alternative for me would be to have a twin sim setup and leave my proprietary phone at home and roam around with my PostmarketOS phone instead. That works fine. But might make it harder to recruit new users.

Finally I’ll say that I agree we shouldn’t blindly trust the government.

Here in Norway we need to use a MinID app to login to various public services, but it is only available in the proprietary app stores for iOS and Android.

Most of banking services in Scandinavia requires a proprietary app called BankID which is co-owned by several banks. Sadly this app is also only available in proprietary app stores.

Apps such as these create a big switching cost for users who want to move to PostmarketOS. Incidentally, EU launched the Digital Markets Act to create more competition amongst platforms including iOS and Android. But it remains to be seen how or if the DMA will affect usage of the aforementioned apps and the EUDI. If the EUDI becomes a trusted authentication method for public services and bank services I could throw proprietary app stores in the bin.