On the (Privacy) Harms of the European Digital Identity Framework

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As digital identity frameworks (DIFs) gain traction around the world, many see privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) as the key to prevent their potential negative societal impacts such as discrimination or surveillance. We critically examine whether PETs can achieve this goal using the European Digital Identity Framework (EUDIF) as an example. We develop a harm analysis methodology based on harm trees that illustrates how information leakage, certain design decisions, or a DIF's deployment cont