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Hi,
Just wanted to mention that I contacted the in-development French identity mobile app, to ask them for interoperability, and remind them their duty to make sure public service is available for everybody, and that their role was not to enforce the choice of mobile OS of their citizens.
https://france-identite.gouv.fr/
Surprisingly I got a pretty open and positive reply, apologizing that their app was not compatible with my OS (Ubuntu Touch), and saying they shared the goal of interoperability, and would study that with the development team what was possible. I did not expect such a positive answer, although I don't know if anything concrete will get out of this.
As a side note I wonder why for this kind of app, with a real need of interoperability, they don't use more Qt, because from what I understand Qt allows to develop apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux desktop, Linux mobile (Ubuntu Touch, Sailfishos, Mobian, postMarketOs, pureOs, ect...), all at once, with only few custom things to go for each platform. Any thoughts on that?
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Maybe their goal is only to target phones and desktop was a non-goal for the people giving orders (that's the one who are supposed to represent citizens eh), and at a first approximation on phones there are only 2 operating systems, and there are several cross-platforms framework targeting Android and IOS that may be more efficient - or known - for this limited target.
Also behind the facade of openness, there are still quite a lot of love of secret in the French administration. Having a GPL licensed framework like QT is a negative point in this perspective since there is some additional weight to have to share the source. I don't have proof of this speculation and possibly the deciding persons don't even know what is a software license.
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Now Qt is now also LGPL that allows to link proprietary software against it.
Also apparently the application will be soon published as opensource code:
https://france-identite.gouv.fr/securite-application/I share your wariness, but let's not be too pessimistic either and withdraw into ourselves which would be a mistake.
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@pparent Oh very interesting. I'm not that optimist with the Spanish Government.
They call it MiDNI (that I misread in my head XD).
Interoperability laws are from the EU, right?
(I'm not that optimist: We have not achieve interoperability between instant message app yet... and DNIe2.0 and DNIe3.0 were a disaster)Anyhow, I'm glad for you (and a bit jealous ^_^⁾
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The UK Government are pushing for the same thing, something that no UK Voter wants. Digital ID is not wanted in the UK as we have enough forms of ID to use and having a single ID is just open to abuse through hacking and other fraud. Everyone also knows it will only be open to Android and iOS (see certain authenticators and banking apps to start off with) and everyone knows our UK Government will do it in the cheapest and least secure way possible. Added to that it is also a way to monitor the population through the use of it.
@gpatel-fr said in French ID app interoperability.:
Also behind the facade of openness, there are still quite a lot of love of secret in the French administration.
I love that line, that is well worth quoting.
