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> "The politicization of this process has overshadowed the clear and important benefits this transaction would have brought to Solvinity's customers and Dutch c
by bilekas 5mo ago
> "The politicization of this process has overshadowed the clear and important benefits this transaction would have brought to Solvinity's customers and Dutch citizens."
That is unbelievably rich. It's politicians job to protect the privacy and interests of its citizens. Must be a strange idea for the US these days.
- ykurtov 5mo agoThis comment gets my personal "The most logical position of the day" award
- burnerRhodov3 5mo ago> It's politicians job to protect the privacy and interests of its citizens. So...they outsource to Logius, who then hires Solvinity to give two for-profit corps access to your information? Why are the blocking the acquisition entirely and not... ya know, hosting their own infrastructure?
- bilekas 5mo ago> hosting their own infrastructure? Because they're not a tech company and they're aware of that so they place bidding contractors to specialists in the field who offer a proposal and bid. This is nothing new.
- FaridIO 5mo agoThat's a very optimistic view. They care about getting elected, and enough tech-savvy people in the country made a big enough stink about it a critical mass of "normal people" got pissed. If they cared about privacy this whole thing wouldn't have been possible in the first place.
- port11 5mo agoI think they should point out the “clear and important benefits” they’d bring. Corporate PR is fucking hollow.