{"id":38162,"date":"2025-09-28T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swiss-voters-narrowly-approve-plan-to-introduce-digital-ids\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:37:32","slug":"swiss-voters-narrowly-approve-plan-to-introduce-digital-ids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swiss-voters-narrowly-approve-plan-to-introduce-digital-ids\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss voters narrowly approve plan to introduce digital IDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Swiss voters have narrowly approved a plan to introduce electronic identity cards in the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">With all votes counted, 50.4% of those who voted said yes to the proposal, while 49.6% rejected it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The closeness of the ballot is a surprise. Opinion polls had suggested up to 60% backed digital IDs, which also had the approval of the Swiss government, and both houses of parliament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">It marks the second time the Swiss have had a nationwide vote on digital IDs. An earlier proposal was rejected in 2021, amid concerns the data would be held centrally, and controlled largely by private providers. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Sunday&#8217;s revised proposal keeps the system in government hands. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Data will be stored only on the smartphones of individual users, and digital IDs will be optional. Citizens can continue to use Switzerland&#8217;s national identity card if they choose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cdr624j16jpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss voters have narrowly approved a plan to introduce electronic identity cards in the country. With all votes counted, 50.4% of those who voted said yes to the proposal, while 49.6% rejected it. The closeness of the ballot is a surprise. Opinion polls had suggested up to 60% backed digital IDs, which also had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38164,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38162\/revisions\/38164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}