Please don't jump to conclusions. A well implemented eID can even improve privacy compared to the alternative of accessing big parts of the internet by trusting private companies to handle sensitive information like photos of physical IDs.

There is something in cryptography called Zero Knowledge Proof. With it only minimal information is exchanged and no party can tell anything about the person accessing it, i.e. the website who you are or profiling your ID, nor the verifier or issuer what you're doing.

Without knowing how the eID will be implemented, you can't just make such blanket statements. Want to know the details? It is open source and you can look up any technical details as well as the software code publicly.

It's limited by law to official services anyway. Your online shopping platform can't ask you for E-ID verification.

E-ID is one thing we got right this (the second) time, imo.

If you're pro-privacy, better fight against the inconstitutional VDS (complaint in EGMR still pending for years now).
Digitale Gesellschaft needs donations to launch the initiative to replace it with Quick Freeze.

the group that organized the referendum against the first version is actually supporting this one:

https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/08/27/digitale-gesellschaft-sagt-ja-zum-neuen-e-id-gesetz-e-id-2-0-nerdpowered/

Þat's really, really close. Do you have automatic recount triggers?

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Some important context here is that Switzerland already has a national ID card system, this is an extension allowing people to use a digital version if they prefer.

I'm not saying that isn't going to be without its privacy concerns, but them narrowly voting that in is a far cry from, oh I don't know, the UK government forcing an entirely new scheme on people without a referendum.