@aral Oh, our daughter was almost dropped as a patient by her medical provider, when we chose to not give consent to electronic processing of her health data - until we pointed out that this is illegal under GDPR regulations.
100% agreed, when we designed the Berlin COVID proof of vaccination/testing (the BärCODE), one of our key criteria was that normal people didn't need to have an app, nor did they even need a phone, the QR code be on a piece of paper and it would still be a verifiable proof of vaccination/negative test.
@aral not really, consider that kids don't usually have bank accounts and are fine with using cash. Why can't adult live that way?
Just that in case of banks even in small countries you have a choice of more than two, while with mobiles there are more than two options, but the two dominate so much, that no one cares about the others.
@aurisc4 Kids can live that way because they have parents with bank accounts.
So should you be able to live without using a bank? Yes. Is it practical to? Not really. Should it be legal to require either an Apple or Google phone to have a bank account? No.
@aurisc4@aral I can’t pay a lot of necessary things with cash, including healthcare, rent, electricity, water and taxes. Banking is not optional nowadays.
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