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The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything (nos.nl)
submitted 1 week ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Turns out the company in questioned already was bought by a UK company, so already isn't even Dutch (or even EU anymore). But at least it's not American (the concern is that American laws potentially give the American government a lot of access to the Dutch citizen data). Companies owned by companies. It gets complicated.