Starting tickets for the Nijmegen Four Days Marches are always sold out in no time. Anyone who wants to get a will, may be inclined to go to Marktplaats. But beware: sellers use bot software to get free start tickets and to sell for a lot of money. Around 47,000 people are at the start […]
In screen time , Tech Reporter Rutger Otto Writes Weekly About the Internet. This week: Jonathan Haidt’s visit to the Netherlands. Haidt wrote the book Generation Anxiety About the Impact of Smartphones on Children, which Garnered Him A Lot Of Criticism. I Braced Myelf for Haidt’s Visit to Utrecht. The Social Psychologist Has A Pedantic
A Recent Data Breach at the Government Has Meeant That In Some Cases, Personal Data or Civil Servants Could Be Retriebed via Published Government Documents. All MINISTRIES ARE Involved in The Leak, A Spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior Told Nu.nl. The National Government published Documents of which Information in The Metadata was not
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) Receives Many Complaints About Telecom and Internet Providers Who Make It Unnecessarily Difficult to Cancel A Subscription. Often you can only canel by phone, which is Against the Rules. Therefore, The Regulator is Starting An Investigation. The ACM Will Investigate How Telecom and Internet Providers Offer Information
The child pornography reporting center sees an increase in sexual child abuse consisting or self-made images. These are images that are shared online. In One in Three Reported Images, It Concerns A Self-Made Photo. Offlimits, under which the child pornography reporting center falls, speaks of a worrying trend in its annual report. In Total, about
Has Meta Ever Bought WhatsApp and Instagram to NIP Competition in The Bud? That question will be central to a major american lawsuit in the coming week. If the Judge Declares The Acquisitions Illegal, The Company May Have To Split Up The Apps. The Lawsuit started on Monday and is expected to last two months.
Messages from European Users That Are Not Protected Will Now Be Used by Meta to Train AI Models. This includes, for example, photos you share on instagram and comments you leave on Facebook. Meta is sending notifications to users this week to inform them of the change. All Messages Shared by Adult Users on Facebook