They want to be able to have their information available where the population can see it. The population was/is on facebook so they post information to facebook. They did not rely on it, they just used it as another avenue for communication. Still good that they’re moving off of it though.
Yeah, it’s not about privacy or anything like that. Which is why I don’t understand this decision at all. It’s not like they have to do anything besides public announcements on Facebook. What privacy are they trying to protect?
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Err, wut? That they were using it at all is disappointing.
It was clearly a privacy nightmare from day one - that anyone in IT let it be used is a major failure on their part.
I even said as much to my peers at the time.
They want to be able to have their information available where the population can see it. The population was/is on facebook so they post information to facebook. They did not rely on it, they just used it as another avenue for communication. Still good that they’re moving off of it though.
But Facebook is a webpage. Anything they put on Facebook should be on their webpage instead.
It is, they’re usually posts like “bought your first house? Find out how housing taxes work on rijksoverheid.nl”.
The Dutch government seems to be pretty stringent on their single source of truth policy on the web.
Yeah, it’s not about privacy or anything like that. Which is why I don’t understand this decision at all. It’s not like they have to do anything besides public announcements on Facebook. What privacy are they trying to protect?
The privacy concerns are about facebook knowing in detail what government news Dutch citizens interact with.
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