▲ 555 ▼ The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything (nos.nl) submitted 5 months ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 59 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 months ago (2 children) Oh good. That the plan got frozen wasn't nearly as publicized as it initially passing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago News agencies brought everyone and their dogs to give their opinions on why using foregin (and USA specifically) provider for voting systems was a bad idea. Then there was plenty of articles what the decision is being reconsidered and eventually a handful of items noting that we are actually staying in domestic datacenters. Rational decisions apparently don't get as many clicks. But there's still plenty of our data (banks, insurance companies, etc) using AWS/Azure which should be considered as a national security issue, but those are private companies, so government can't (or won't) interfere as strongly. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago News agencies brought everyone and their dogs to give their opinions on why using foregin (and USA specifically) provider for voting systems was a bad idea. Then there was plenty of articles what the decision is being reconsidered and eventually a handful of items noting that we are actually staying in domestic datacenters. Rational decisions apparently don't get as many clicks. But there's still plenty of our data (banks, insurance companies, etc) using AWS/Azure which should be considered as a national security issue, but those are private companies, so government can't (or won't) interfere as strongly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago News agencies brought everyone and their dogs to give their opinions on why using foregin (and USA specifically) provider for voting systems was a bad idea. Then there was plenty of articles what the decision is being reconsidered and eventually a handful of items noting that we are actually staying in domestic datacenters. Rational decisions apparently don't get as many clicks. But there's still plenty of our data (banks, insurance companies, etc) using AWS/Azure which should be considered as a national security issue, but those are private companies, so government can't (or won't) interfere as strongly. permalink fedilink source parent