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1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Dec-2018 03:42:45 UTC Mike Gerwitz
   "No more paperwork: Estonia edges toward digital government"
   
   https://apnews.com/da5e0dd3bf364bbda436fc16690f842c
   
   Not having researched this in any detail, this makes me rather uncomfortable. Not only are there concerns from a security perspective, but also a software freedom perspective---can all of this be done using only free software? Are users free to implement their own software to interface with these government services? I hope so, otherwise it's not the democratic tool that Estonia believes it to be. The article mentions X-Road, and the Wikipedia article on X-Road states that it releases source code for its software under an MIT Expat license. This would be acceptable it that's the case for all government software mentioned in the linked article.
   
   If anyone else _has_ researched this, I'd be interested to hear thoughts on it.