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American start-ups are being brought in to produce public services software (yikes!) (issuu.com)

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The Schaerbeek newsletter (vol. 390) page 14 says American start-ups will be considered to write software for the digital transformation that’s being forced on us.

Two concerns:

competency- most technologists are incompetent as it is. We see how enshitified the web is. And we see the disaster with communes forcing people to use broken tools. Is it really sensible to bring in start-ups?
sovereignty- American suppliers will be more likely to create dependencies on unethical data-abusing US tech giants (#Amazon, #Microsoft, #Cloudflare, #Google).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's concerning to be honest