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Dutch government requires you to use Android or iOS to use digital infrastructure (blogs.fsfe.org)

submitted 2 years ago by sexy_peach@feddit.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Dutch digital identity verification system DigiD has announced the phasing out SMS as second factor. That way they require citizens to install a smartphone app in order to use digital services from the government, municipalities, the health sector and others. These applications only work on iOS and Android phones, with reliance on third party services.

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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, I am aware. I was referring to this part of the article:

In contrast, the situation in Germany is quite the opposite. AusweisApp2 is the German identification app, which is available in F-Droid, Debian and many other Free Software repositories.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Oh I see