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On my way to The Hague, to draw the red line for Dutch government with respect to Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza.
After last time's 100,000 participants, NS put in a lot of extra trains. My very early one already has a lot of passengers in red.
#rodelijn

After having looked at eIDAS and the dutch implementation of digital identity, it is very interesting to read this paper, a proposal that tries to improve on various aspects from eiDAS.
"An Architecture for Distributed Digital Identities in the Physical World"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10185

An Architecture for Distributed Digital Identities in the Physical World
Digital identities are increasingly important for mediating not only digital but also physical service transactions. Managing such identities through centralized providers can cause both availability and privacy concerns: single points of failure and control are ideal targets for global attacks on technical, organizational, or legal fronts. We design, analyze, and build a distributed digital identity architecture for physical world transactions in common scenarios like unlocking doors, public t…

Hessen: Digitale Elternabende zum Handyverbot
In Hessen startet bald das neue Schuljahr, in dem strengere Regeln für mobile Endgeräte wie Smartphones gelten. Für Eltern gibt es Online-Infoveranstaltungen.
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Fight Chat Control – Protect Digital Privacy in the EU: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos.
The "Chat Control" proposal would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens.
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SAP-Chef Klein erklärt die #DigitaleSouveränität Europas für gelöst, Die Kontrolle über Daten sei längst Realität, entscheidend sei nicht mehr die Hardware, sondern wer den Schlüssel besitzt. Die eigentliche Herausforderung sieht er im Mangel an klugen Köpfen, nicht an Serverfarmen. Sein Appell: Weniger Infrastrukturträume, mehr Fokus auf Bildung und Innovation. Europas Zu…

SAP-Chef Christian Klein sieht Problem der Digitalen Souveränität gelöst
US-Hyperscaler spielen für die Digitale Souveränität Europas keine Rolle. Es gehe vielmehr um den KI-Einsatz, Use Cases und einen neuen Umgang mit Regulierung, sagt SAP-CEO Christian Klein.

Termin zum Vormerken: 1.-3. August in #BietigheimBissingen das #Enztalfest des #Musikverein Bissingen.
Für jeden Geschmack ist was dabei, musikalisch wie kulin…

Mediahuis Ireland, which owns the Belfast Telegraph, Irish Independent, and others, says it has 100K digital subscribers after launching paywalls in 2020 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/mediah…

Mediahuis Ireland reaches 100,000 digital subscriber milestone
Mediahuis Ireland has crossed the 100,000 digital subscriber mark, just over five years after first launching its paywalls.

I am very happy to announce that our big architecture paper for the Digidow project on distributed digital identity systems with biometric authentication for physical interaction is now online on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10185.
While it can't have all the details, it summarizes the main de…

An Architecture for Distributed Digital Identities in the Physical World
Digital identities are increasingly important for mediating not only digital but also physical service transactions. Managing such identities through centralized providers can cause both availability and privacy concerns: single points of failure and control are ideal targets for global attacks on technical, organizational, or legal fronts. We design, analyze, and build a distributed digital identity architecture for physical world transactions in common scenarios like unlocking doors, public t…

heise | Drei Monate Digitalministerium: zäher Aufbau, mutige Pläne
Rangeleien um Personal und Kompetenzen bremsen den neuen Digitalminister Karsten Wildberger. Doch seine Ideen lassen bereits aufhorchen.
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Erfolg für Trump: EU-Kommission will Digitalsteuer aus Haushaltsplan streichen
Das Aufschieben des Plans für eine Digitalsteuer sollte der EU bei den Zollverhandlungen mit den USA helfen. Der Rückzieher kommt bereits nach zwei Monaten.