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Finland: Citizens' initiative on securing critical digital services heading to parliament (yle.fi)
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A citizens' initiative regarding Finland's security of supply for critical digital services is progressing to parliament for consideration.

The initiative has garnered the 50,000 statements of support needed in order to be considerd by lawmakers.

According to the initiative's backers, Finland needs to secure its critical digital services, including for elections, social security, taxation and others.

"Finland must ensure that the basic rights of citizens, democracy and national security are not dependent on actors who are under the purview of governments outside the EU/EEA," their website states in English.

The digital sovereignty advocacy group noted that such services, and the critical information they involve, are increasingly being moved into the hands of "big corporations from outside the EU".

"Critical public services and data must be kept in the hands of Finnish and European actors, on servers located in the EU/EEA and built on top of European or open software," the group's website stated.

Earlier this year, the justice ministry announced it had reversed a plan to store election data on cloud servers operated by US tech giant Amazon.

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[โ€“] Kjell@lemmy.world 2 points 52 minutes ago

I hope they succeed and that we can have similar initiatives in other countries in EU.

[โ€“] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

They should start by forcing the private banks - which handle secure identification / authentication in Finland for some profoundly dystopian reason - to make 2FA cellphone apps that run on ALL mobile platforms, not just Android or iOS.

As things stand today, if your bank requires you to use their cellphone app to login, it practically means that you can't, say, pay your taxes or register your car without fucking Google or Apple - two giant Big Data monopolies headquartered in a fascist country - sitting right in the middle of the transaction.

[โ€“] maam@feddit.uk 3 points 9 hours ago

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