{"id":17991,"date":"2026-05-26T16:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=e65bb41546bd4dcfd92255b748dd22ec"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:40:25","slug":"the-netherlands-just-blocked-a-us-company-from-buying-the-cloud-provider-that-runs-dutch-digital-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=17991","title":{"rendered":"The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/dutch-government-blocks-kyndryl-solvinity-digid-sovereignty.avif\" width=\"868\" height=\"488\"><\/p>\n<p>The Dutch government has imposed a \u201ccomplete prohibition\u201d on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly \u20ac100 million, would have given a US-headquartered firm control over the platform that runs DigiD, the digital identity system used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/the-netherlands-just-blocked-a-us-company-from-buying-the-cloud-provider-that-runs-dutch-digital-identity?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/the-netherlands-just-blocked-a-us-company-from-buying-the-cloud-provider-that-runs-dutch-digital-identity\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch government has imposed a \u201ccomplete prohibition\u201d on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}