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Raphaël Bastide

French gov wants you to have have a recent smartphone and that’s a shame

Changing professional address in France requires
- a smartphone (I don’t have one)
- An app called France Identité, requiring iOS 16.6 or Android 11+, that will digitalize my face and link my devices to it.
Or to pay at least 80€ to contact a lawyer so he does that for me.

So the French government wants me to have a very recent smartphone, surfing on planned obsolescence without any web / paper alternative, to scan my face in 3D by installing its app on my device. All that to change a single address line. It makes me sick and, frankly scared.