Google Play Store is rolling out a new badge for government-made apps
Google Play Store is rolling out a new badge for government-made apps
Starting today, apps made by state and federal governments are getting a new government badge to help users better identify official apps.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14967490
Starting today, apps made by state and federal governments are getting a new government badge to help users better identify official apps.
The badge will first appear on over 3,000 apps for 12 different countries.
In the case of my home country, you could already tell because of the rating
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We already have one for the Danish government's apps. It's called 2.1 stars. /s but also not really /s because most of our official government apps are actually rated rather poorly.
But seeing how the best rated app by the Danish government is actually rated 4 stars on play store, a badge may be in its place.
Oh good, now there's a good list of what to avoid.
Depends, some of the government apps are actually pretty well done and you don't want to end up with an unofficial ID card app that steals your identity. The German Ausweis App is a good example of a well done gov app.
btw, Ukraine's Diia (дія) app is pretty good too and mostly open source (both backend and frontend components are fully open source, but document microservices which directly contact govt registeies in order to fetch the data are kept proprietary; they would be useless without proper authorization anyway though)
it also provides seamless authorization using managed keypairs (i.e. instead of using your own hardware keys to sign electronic documents, you can just use the app, which also provides a convinient oauth-like flow. Signing up for a bank account literally turns into a single tap, a face scan, and providing e.g. salary info etc)
There's an IRS app that will help you to know when you'll receive a tax return if you live in the US. That's useful.
@shortwavesurfer Guess you're not paying your taxes then.