The National Assembly voted on Thursday evening “the objective” of a generalization of digital identity in 2027, without obligation, and did not have to decide on the end of online anonymity after the withdrawal of amendments on this sensitive subject of the digital bill.
The Renaissance rapporteur Paul Midy made these two demands, provoking the ire of the left and the RN, worried about an attack on fundamental freedoms.
Yes to pseudonymity, no anonymity on social networks, he repeated in the chamber on Thursday evening, defending the principle of French license plates on social networks. As in committee, the deputy for Essonne, however, chose to withdraw his amendments on the subject, in order not to put the final vote on the bill at risk.
The government had expressed its opposition to this device which risked contravening European rules or the Constitution, and which sparked a wave of protests from defenders of public freedoms. Just before, the Assembly adopted an amendment establishing the State the objective in 2027 that 100% of French people can have access to a free digital identitywithout binding obligation.
In no way a way to monitor the population
Supporters of the measure praise it as a means of accessing public services or securing administrative procedures thanks to devices such as the France Identit application to prove your identity with a mobile phone. After the plastic and electronic identity card, obviouslywe need to move towards digital identitypublic, regal, this is the meaning of history, said Paul Midy.
This is in no way a means of monitoring the population, but a means of improving access to the law, added the minister in charge of digital affairs, Jean-Nol Barrot. The problem is not digital certification per se, it is digital identity everywhere. We cannot ask for more in digital space than in real spaceretorted the socialist Arthur Delaporte.
RN Aurlien Lopez-Liguori criticized repressive provisions. We do not want registration at the front, we are not cars, nor detainees, he said. Earlier, in a much more consensual atmosphere, the National Assembly voted on Renaissance amendments to make digital awareness training compulsory in 6th grade.
The generalization of this certificate, called Pix, was already planned for the start of the 2024 school year. The deputies also planned a renewal of the certificate at the end of college.