The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything
https://www.techspot.com/news/112552-netherlands-blocked-us-company-buying-app-dutch-citizens.html
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything
https://www.techspot.com/news/112552-netherlands-blocked-us-company-buying-app-dutch-citizens.html
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Thank goodness. Imagine all our personal information in the hands of a capitalist company in the USA.
Why would that even be legal
Meanwhile the datacenter itself is still from an American company (Equinix)
American here. Good.
good, the current US is a terrible entity that i wouldn’t trust.
As an American, I can hardly blame you.
Keep up the good fight. Fuck authoritarianism and capitalism.
très bien !
c’est le rôle d’un état de protéger les citoyens. les droits civique . les espaces de soins , de vote , de statistique etc . c’est une obligation morale de chaque gouvernements de protéger ce droit à sa vie privé .
ça ne se négocie pas
ne se vends pas
ne se discute même pas .
bravo pays bas
We really need to stop selling shit to America. We need to start using LESS from them.
It’s wild how quickly the US has managed to change the global opinion of itself, they’re treated as suspiciously as China is, possibly more so.
Quite right too. The US is starting to resemble a cancer.
Good. We need the US administration and tech giants far away from our data in EU.
Common dutch W
Even we don’t trust our country anymore so why should anyone else? Totally understand the hate for this country right now
Fair play to the Dutch
And thank fuck for that..
This would already be an extremely dubious proposal in optimistic times.
But with trumps current regime I wouldn’t trust the US to keep its own data safe. Let alone ours. Let alone the unspoken threat of abusing that information.
Imagine being an immigrant in the netherlands, you go to visit the US, and then you get put into a concentration camp in a foreign country by the US based on that info. There would be very little stopping them.
The fact that this was even suggested is one of the bigger losses of trust I have in my goverment. Even if some of that was recouped by their swift rejection of it.
Smart very smart
The CLOUD act pretty much killed deals like this. Being able to dip into another nations data, even if offshore, when it is held by a US company creates an obvious problem. Throw in Trump and it’s an even worse idea.
Niet jouw app
As an American, dont let our companies own anything in your country. Our companies are all owned by fascists who want to control everything
It’s a matter of basic national security. There should be nothing even slightly controversial about this.
Good for Netherlands. The US is invasive cancer that needs to be isolated till it dies off.
Wise & measured governance. Must be nice.
Europe should focus on building its own, nationalized tech, and not let global monopolies siphon profits of tech consumption outside of the EU. They have the resources, and AI can only accelerate that shift away.
The monopoly in tech is such a huge deal everybody shrugs off, but as our reliance on tech only increases the monopoly factor hurts the economy harder through less jobs and higher prices.
When your government actually looks out for its citizens.
Fantastic news. America is the worst.
>US enterprise services provider Kyndryl tried to acquire Dutch cloud specialist Solvinity, but The Hague has officially stopped the acquisition.
Was Solvinity actually planning to go through with it and the government had to step in?
Now if we could do this against the chinese in the US that would be great.
Maybe that company needs to be nationalized. Just saying…