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.
Thanks for this! A personal identification service should not be in the hands of a non European company.
Shouldn’t be on private companies to begin with
Netherlands love to privatise with guardrails. Give the liability to private companies but micro-manage them. It’s the same for roads, healthcare, etc.
Does it work well?
Genuinely wondering.
Do the dutch people think it works well?
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.
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.
Nothing important should be in the hands of USA, China or Russia.
Nothing should be in the hands of anyone
*universe winks out of existence
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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.
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.
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.
I find it difficult to accept that such a critical service is privately owned and operated. I find it completely unacceptable that it was supposed to be owned by Americans. This decision is definitely a positive one.
And a wakeup call that if your information is there, that you make sure you get it wiped ASAP. Because obviously the people running the company see no moral problems with handing over your data to someone else.
The thing is if you live in the Netherlands you kinda need it. I never knew it’s operated by a private company though, that’s ridiculously dumb.
Definitely! After reading the article it’s not THAT bad but it’s still not good. The service is developed and managed by a government company BUT the IT service is outsourced to a private Dutch company that’s owned by a British company. Like what the fuck?
Yes!
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“Junior minister” 😅
Staatssecretaris.
She is on Mastodon by the way: https://social.overheid.nl/@stasdigi
