The Dutch government has blocked the sale of Solvinity, the company that manages its online services portal DigiD, to the US-based tech giant Kyndryl amid concerns that millions of citizens’ private data could be compromised.

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    Thanks for this! A personal identification service should not be in the hands of a non European company.

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        Netherlands love to privatise with guardrails. Give the liability to private companies but micro-manage them. It’s the same for roads, healthcare, etc.

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          Does it work well?

          Genuinely wondering.

          Do the dutch people think it works well?

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            Yeah, arguably it does work pretty well, as the country is top of the class on many aspects but it’s definitely one of the most capitalistic countries in Europe and you feel it with certain things.

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        The true matter is somewhat nuanced. The company managing it, Logius, is government owned, however they’re using services, hosting and such, from this Solvinity that’s about to be acquired.

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      So what you are saying is that Europe should buy the US personal identification services?

      I mean, it would be funny to have European companies start buying major US companies, enforcing European work standards, vacation, parental leave, less stress, better quality of life.

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        Some of the German Car companies tried that, in their manufacturing they started in the south of the country(edit, in the south us, carolinas and thereabouts,) politicians bullied them into not giving the workers those things, like Unions, they were willingly trying to implement as is their model.

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          I know 90 % of all warfare among the Homo genus has been Franks vs. Germanics, but sounds like you guys should learn something from Frank working class.