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Comment by ulrikrasmussen

3 hours ago

I run GrapheneOS, but I can't use the national digital identity app because it requires Google Play Integrity. I very much cannot do what I want without it having severe consequences because the duopoly is starting to shape the basic digital infrastructure, and critical services start requiring that I use one of the two ecosystems.

I think the principle of digital autonomy should be front and center. Surely we can figure out security models that don't imply that two American tech companies get to call the shots on what people can or cannot do on hardware that they supposedly own.

Working adjacent to such digital identity app development, they are unfortunately regulated to require such device integrity approaches.

If Google Play Integrity didn't exist, the app would only be certified to run on e.g. unrooted Samsung Knox devices.