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Call: do not pass on data from Kringloopwijzer
The Nitrogen Claim Foundation (SSC) asks ZuivelNL to stop passing on data from the Kringloopwijzer to the government. Concern has arisen as to whether the data is anonymous and/or will remain after processing. At the beginning of this week, it was revealed that ZuivelNL in 2019 a forwarding contract has closed.
According to ZuivelNL, this was with the intention of unburdening dairy farmers. Until then, they were obliged to submit an annual statement to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). By forwarding Kringloopwijzer data, this was no longer necessary.
Period without proper supervision
The current management of ZuivelNL was not aware of this agreement. It was closed in silence. Shortly after his appointment at the end of 2020, former interim manager Roald van Noort said that the management at the time had no insight and control over what was happening in the then 'theme groups'. At that time, some employees of ZuivelNL also received permission to set up their own data company, in addition to their work at the trade association.
May violate GDPR rules
In recent years, various farming groups have regularly seen individualized farm data in government documents - data that had not come there with their permission, but could not trace the source. It is therefore suspected that the GDPR rules are being neglected somewhere, either because the anonymization obligation is evaded, or because anonymized data is pasted together again. Dairy companies are also concerned about this.
ZuivelNL published a press release about the agreement with CBS at the beginning of this week, but is still busy examining all the details of the agreement.
Klaas van der Horst
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