On December 15, 2017, the Dutch Data Protection Authority ("DDPA") announced (source document in Dutch) that an American online vacation services company ended the processing of Dutch national identity numbers ("BSN"), per the order of the DDPA. The company now immediately and automatically deletes the BSN from all digital copies of Dutch identity documents and has deleted all previously collected national identity numbers.

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