As a French person, I'm confused as to why DigiD is not a government-run project like FranceConnect is. I'm even more bewildered that an American company thought that they could take over the national identity management system of an European country, as if this was business as usual.

Finally taking the digital threath from USA, Israel and China serious.

Finally.

But now they want NL Wallet to use Google and Apple accounts for login, so this is happening again.

Here is my naive take on sovereignty, and how everything should work in the new "USA decided to kill its own dominance, and attack its allies" world. The world is now balkanized, let's live in that reality.

1. Almost every country has amazing universities with software tracks. A big issue is that universities often don't prepare their students for the real work, aka making and supporting products.

2. Governments should greatly favor products created by the students of their own universities.

The goal of every country should be to foster a sovereign software flywheel. Anything else seems pretty darn silly.

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Why not just dutch company?

There are European countries that are obviously pro-russia...

What if this European company decides to contract out its job to other continents?

What's wrong with the government taking over admin of DigiD? I just don't understand why the government won't consider funding it. It's a public infrastructure service at this point.

IDK what it's like now, but DigiD used to be 2 racks in a separate cage. Even if you can access the floor, you're not getting physically near the servers.

Plot twist: the data will still be stored outside of the EU - the magic of cloud computing. :D

Related:

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278406

Good luck with digital id. Not gonna play along. No matter what.

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Why is DigiD even a product that needs constant maintenance? From my experience using it it's just a pretty simple authentication/data sharing system. Every oauth provider has something similar. Why is it a whole separate product that is owned by some company?