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<p>The rise of Mastodon has made me so much more aware of government services requiring us to use private companies’ systems to communicate with them and access services. </p><p>Sitting on a Dutch train just now I was shown on a screen “feeling unsafe in the train? Contact us via WhatsApp”. </p><p>What if I don’t use WhatsApp? (I do, but I wish I didn’t have to) I’m forced to share my data with Meta to use it. </p><p>Public systems should not require use of private services. </p><p><a href="/tags/ns/" rel="tag">#NS</a> <a href="/tags/netherlands/" rel="tag">#Netherlands</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a></p>

<p>UPDATE: Bunnie is coming home, NS has found them and they should be mailed to us in the next days. Thank you all for sharing and boosting. I&#x27;m overjoyed </p><p>We lost my child&#x27;s cuddly toy in the train from Amsterdam to Vlissingen 😭 They are heartbroken</p><p>EDIT: the cuddly toy is a grey bunny and their name is Bunnie, I can only imagine how scared little Bunnie is 😥</p><p>EDIT: adding an image, Bunnie was sitting in a pink backpack with children&#x27;s clothes and a tablet in it</p><p><a href="https://ilost.co/nl/lost/217655" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ilost.co/nl/lost/217655</a></p><p><a href="/tags/nederlandse/" rel="tag">#nederlandse</a> <a href="/tags/spoorwegen/" rel="tag">#spoorwegen</a> <a href="/tags/ns/" rel="tag">#ns</a></p>