“Please Identify Yourself! What to expect of EU's ubiquitous digital identification infrastructure”

Digital Identity Systems are on the rise worldwide. While global majority countries already have ample experience with their pitfalls and human rights implications, Europe just concluded its big digital identity reform without any concern for the experiences of other regions. Thomas Lohninger works for Austria’s biggest digital rights NGO epicenter.works and has shaped the 2,5 year negotiations for the new EU law. This presentation will showcase realistic use-cases of the technology from age verification, online identification, customer tracking up to replacing CAPTCHAs. We will discuss essential safeguards that attempt to make such systems of government certified personal data exchanges less dangerous in a world of surveillance capitalism and rising authoritarianism. Speaker: Thomas Lohninger, epicenter.works, Austria Moderator: Erich Prem, eutema & TU Wien, Austria The Digital Humanism Lecture Series is funded by the Vienna Business Agency, a service offered by the City of Vienna, in cooperation with the Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien and TU Wien's Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML).