Europe's New Digital Identity Wallet: Guarantor of Digital Security or Backdoor to Tyranny?

Last Wednesday, Thierry Breton, EU’s Internal Market Commissioner, proudly announced on Twitter/X that he had struck a deal with MEPs to create a European “digital identity wallet,” which would permit all EU citizens to have “a secured e-identity for their lifetime.” According to the European Commission’s own website, the European Digital Identity can b…