Did you read the law? It explicitly prohibits broader usage without the necessary new laws to allow them to do so.

There is an article in the proposed law that e-ID is only allowed to be required for actions, where the law explicitly requires authentication.

In this proposed law there is no article that explicitly forces services to require a ID

So it only applies to services that used to require identification since a long time, lime buying alcohol, money laundering protection, some government stuff you had to do physically prior etc.

But there is a new law coming which sadly did mot get a referendum, that requires age verification for 18+ media like video and games. But this law will take effect no matter if e-ID is accepted or not. So if e-ID was declined, you would have to scan the compete ID, do a liveness selfie and send it to private companies like Netflix to watch 18+ stuff there.

With e-ID, you can proof you’re old enough without revealing name, gender, body hight etc.

Please inform yourself correctly before spreading nonsense

That's exactly how it works with the Belgian system.

Same for reductionis at the local swimming pool. They can only check if I'm a local but don't get to see my adress.

We have a local privacy podcast (Dasprivé). The CISO was featured on the podcast. I can't transcribe everything but the community consents on the fact that they run a tight ship. The use case is very local so apart from Flemish and French speaking sources i sadly can't get further than 'trust me bro' at the moment.

Every authentication uses your SIM, your civil service number and your password (PIN, fingerprint, face id). Before authenticating you'll see all the info that'll be shared like your, date of birth, adress, phone number,...

Acces is granular. If age verification is needed, the request will only state that you're 18 or above for example. They don't get my date of birth. As a resident, I get a reduction at our local swimming pool. The can use my id but the only info they see is whether I live in the city or whether I'm from outside.

Everytime my data is accessed, the acces is logged. The log contains information about the organisation and, if it applies, the person that made the manual lookup. The legality is checked by logging the legal ground for acces.

Are they trustworthy? I don't know. We use our eID for online verification for over 20 years now and ItsMe has certainly made the whole process a breeze.

I'm talking about public services. For private services I have no idea what they all do and, as importantly, what they are legally bound to do. I would hope that obviously they would have to provide at least 1 solution that doesn't rely on any third party, e.g at least provide the card reader with legal Belgian ID option (which seems to be what they offer you, so IMHO that's good enough), but I don't know.

ItsMe not running is pretty good in terms of privacy because their entire business model is, and correct me if I am wrong, to be an intermediary. I didn't check what data they share but I'd be pleasantly shocked if it was none.

The card reader might seem slightly inconvenient or outdated but there is no intermediary and it is, AFAICT, secure because it's based on well established cryptography.

PS: it's also fun because you can play with PAM and thus, I didn't try that, login or get su and sudo with your ID card.