Note: Since for more than a year I’ve been reading about the downsides of the eIDAS legislation. Their sources where mostly DOT.com US entities. The same stuff happened when the EU implemented the new GDPR and now similar things happen with the. upcoming eIDAS 2.0 and the the upcoming AI law. Here I outline the EU position to clarify the situation. This isn’t news, but Since the anti e-IEDAS campaign keeps pushing the agenda it’s still relevant imo.
"The discussion on the eIDAS Regulation has entered its most important phase in the European Parliament and Council. Mozilla has recently launched a campaign in the form of a website aimed at political decision-makers, but also the general public.
“As with the Google response, you are taking a very US-centric approach to lobbying that is only going to reduce the chance of influencing the outcome. EU politics are not the same as US politics.”
Here( link ESD Experts support decision trilogue; answer to mozilla the overview fact sheet.
Edit 1 & 2: Sorry, no ill intent. It seems something went wrong while shortening & copying this link title:" ESD Experts Support Trilogue Compromise and Emphasize Necessity for Highest Security of the Internet
ESD is a European lobby group consisting of the CEOs of Europe’s leading trust service providers.
Browsers aren’t mandated by law to include DigiCert root CA. If they pull sketchy shit they’ll get grilled faster than you can say “self-signed certificate”: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/heXVr8o83Ys
edit: ah, I just read the whole mailing list thread, I see the argument now