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The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything (nos.nl)
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[โ€“] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder why that might be.

[โ€“] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours 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.