r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 28 '26
Society 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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u/RN2FL9 May 28 '26
The person you're replying to doesn't really seem to understand the service. DigiD is a digital ID system and you can use it to log into government & other services. It is used to verify your identity, it doesn't actually have all that data. For example with taxes you use DigiD to login and then it takes you to the government website of the tax authorities. For healthcare it's the same, log in with DigiD to prove that it's you and then the healthcare provider shows you your data.
Its obviously still very bad for this system to get into foreign hands but they wouldn't have access to all of the actual personal data.