A proposed update to the EU’s Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services (eIDAS) regulation is facing strong resistance from industry, academia and internet governance advocates. On November 2, 10 organizations, including Firefox browser creator Mozilla, cloud computing providers Cloudflare and Fastly and the Linux Foundation, published an open letter opposing an amendment to the eIDAS legislation proposed by the European Commission in October.

Source: Infosecurity Magazine – Information Security & IT Security