A majority in the House of Representatives fear an American company taking over the one thing that holds Dutch society together: DigiD.
Digital identity is the engine of Dutch bureaucracy. A working DigiD is required to access health insurance, pension funds, housing, tax returns, and other services.
Give all the sensitive data of 18.4 million people and all their entanglements to the United States of America, and we could have a crisis on our hands.
Why DigiD may be in trouble
At the heart of this crisis is Solvinity, the Amsterdam-based company that stores all of DigiD’s data.
Authorities began panicking after an American IT company called Kyndryl announced its plans to acquire Solvinity back in November.
Members of Parliament are holding a technical briefing today, reports NOS, to discuss the risks of this American tech giant acquiring Solvinity.
While Members of Parliament cannot tell a company what to do, GroenLinks-PvdA believe that Minister Rijkaart, who is responsible for national digital security, should “put his foot down.”
The People’s Party for Freedom (VVD) worries that the US government could access the DigiD data and leverage it to blackmail people.
De grote verdwijntruc #DigiD #USAbezit #kwetsbaar pic.twitter.com/H9OzAOpzYb
— Joep Bertrams (@joepbertrams) January 17, 2026
Translation: The great vanishing trick. #DigiD #USAowns #vulnerable
Possible solutions, according to MP Barbara Kathmann, include persuading Solvinity to rethink the deal, switching providers, or acquiring a so-called golden share to give the Dutch state veto power.
The panic is justified
When the Israeli PM was arrested in The Hague, Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, after which the chief prosecutor lost access to his Microsoft email address.
Following this precedent (and president), experts believe that service disruption would be the most alarming risk of Solvinity’s takeover.
Because US companies must comply with American sanctions, a future political conflict could arise where “Trump can shut down our digital government with one push of a button,” says GroenLinks-PvdA MP Kathmann.
A digital wake-up call
Think of Microsoft, Google, Apple, Cloudflare, Salesforce… American tech companies have insidiously become the centre of all our digital footprints.
Parliament wants an accelerated debate on digital security by March and is pushing to phase out US cloud services across government agencies in the coming years.
Incoming Prime Minister Rob Jetten has already announced plans for a cabinet member who is explicitly responsible for digital security. Whether that role materialises remains to be seen.
For now, MPs agree on one thing: Dutch digital sovereignty should not be something that depends on decisions made in Washington.
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There is no privacy anymore, this is what you all wished for.
Most digital engineers warned for this years ago… And they all blamed Apple for privacy keeping… Well. That will come to an end.
On device observation on any mobile device or laptop unless you know how to configure it your self from the deep roots of the chips you are using.
Know law enforcement even collaborates with victims to greate groups to publish lies to get access to people their data… So eventually… Claus wasn’t wrong with “If you own nothing you’ll be happy”…
Many still don’t understand how that works…
In short: enforce others in the system to escape your self.
Happens that Amsterdam is happy to collaborate on that 😉
Most don’t even know what the “EU” actually is and those trying to expose the real information are eliminated or even killed so just enjoy your life and know that there is _always_ someone watching your data.
Even when a company is saying: “data can’t be read also not by the company it self”…
They don’t mention their processing partners 😉
You think you have privacy at Google? Average device is deployed with telemetry from the factory 😉