State Secretary Willemijn Aerdts, responsible for Digital Economy and Sovereignty for D66, warns that reliance on foreign messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal poses a risk to the government. Her ministry has launched a pilot project with a European alternative as a first step, with the long-term goal of adopting a messaging platform fully controlled by the Dutch government.
Governments want to move away from “platforms over which we have no control,” says Dutch minister.
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Updated to this: https://nltimes.nl/2026/03/20/dutch-government-tests-european-messaging-app-reduce-reliance-whatsapp
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