Banken, verzekeraars en pensioenfondsen zouden beter moeten samenwerken, maar ook moeten de regels voor bijvoorbeeld aanbestedingen worden aangepast.

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[–] 4 points 8 months ago

Fine. Then pass a law that provides fines for using US tech, but have those fines ramp up over five years. The fines start three months from now at a low level and ramp up to ruinous levels over five years. This gives companies time but also strong financial incentive to make the transition.

Quoting a five year time frame is insidious. It's just short enough to make it seem like you're not dismissing the problem, but it's long enough that business interests can drag their feet and hope the problem goes away before they have to do anything. It's a deflection tactic. The correct response to such weasels is to give them a forced transition structure that provides for immediate accountability, but has the pressure ramp up gradually so that good faith attempts at transition can actually be done.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    They better drop Google (Android) & Apple (iOS) requirements too.

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    [–] 23 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Then stop forcing google play services...

    A lot of Benelux banks require magisk and hiding that you aren't using a specific google branded android version if you use a community ROM.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    I wrote to my country's competition authority but neither of us had required knowledge to fully understand the ask, they just pointed me toward the digital euro and wero whereas I was pushing for mandating alternatives to google and apple services to allow for contactless without their involvement.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Even if it were true, that would be no reason not to get started. Every bit of reduced dependency is good.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The feature parity and global distribution isn't there though. Sure you can make it work, but it's going to be a chunk of extra engineering on top of the switch.

    Good luck to the exec pushing for that change in most financial institutions!

    That said, I could see those trying to do multi cloud picking a European secondary.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Switching is how you get feature parity. Why would anyone contributing to FOSS be all "Oh I think I'll develop this one feature that no one but a few specific big banks want."

    Just deal with it for now, and then put whatever money you previously put towards these expensive closed down services to developing what you need in the FOSS space. It's not complicated.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Dump all American products and services!

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago*

    There is also this FD (Financial newspaper) article that covers the press conference:

    DNB: financiële sector moet binnen vijf jaar minder afhankelijk zijn van VS
    (link to archived version: https://archive.is/FsnM7)

    It doesn't say that much more than the NOS article, but here is their summary (translated by Deepl):

    In brief

    • DNB warns of the risks associated with dependence on American IT service providers.
    • The regulator wants financial institutions to take responsibility.
    • Flexible contracts and joint procurement, among other measures, should help to reduce dependence.
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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    They need to make sure there are enough prisons and gallows for the people who caused this shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Where is this crowd sourced list? I don't have time.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    5 years seems like a very long time... are these groups not aware of the impending implosion of the AI market?

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    As an American, how can any of our products be trusted if the FBI and NSA are for sale to the highest bidder

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Make a real plan to divest yourselves of all US tech. This is the only way forward.

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