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Two years ago we filed a criminal complaint against Booking.com, accusing the company of laundering profits from listings in illegal Israeli settlements.

During that time, the prosecutor has failed to make a decision on the matter.

🚨 The Dutch Court must decide now!
www.somo.nl/court-must-d...

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Ok mensen. Een snel draadje over overmatige bankmonitoring en waarom dat fout is.

Het begint in 2022. Het nationaal compliance instutuut vraagt me: kun je een lezing doen over witwasmonitoring nieuwe stijl. Waarin we het anders en beter doen.

Challenge accepted.
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Toegang banken tot Basisregistratie Personen is ongewenst | Privacy First

Toegang banken tot Basisregistratie Personen is ongewenst privacyfirst.nl/artikelen/to...

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Privacy First Update maart 2026 Privacy First Update maart 2026

Privacy First Update maart 2026 privacyfirst.email-provider.eu/web/krhdqjaz... Ditmaal o.a. over Wtmo, dreigende toegang van banken tot BRP en mogelijke verplichting Europese digitale identiteit.

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Vor Schicksalswahl: Orbán-Regierung soll neuartige Überwachungsprogramme angeschafft haben Die US-Firma Penlink verkauft Überwachungstechnik, die auf Werbe-Tracking basiert. Nach Trumps Abschiebemiliz ICE hat offenbar auch die ungarische Regierung Lizenzen gekauft. Kurz vor der Wahl könnte sie damit gegen Opposition und Medienschaffende vorgehen.

Die US-Firma Penlink verkauft Überwachungstechnik, die auf Werbe-Tracking basiert. Nach Trumps Abschiebemiliz ICE hat offenbar auch die ungarische Regierung Lizenzen gekauft. Kurz vor der Wahl könnte sie damit gegen Opposition und Medienschaffende vorgehen.

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We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.

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Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says The European Union should focus on regulating large social media platforms instead of imposing bans for minors to use them, Estonia’s Education Minister Kristina Kallas said on Friday. Europe…

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

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Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says Banning kids from social media won’t work, as they “will find very quickly the ways to go around and to still use social media,” Estonian Education Minister Kristina Kallas said.

"Europe pretends to be weak when it comes to big American and international corporations," but that's a "pretense," Kallas said. She called on the EU to "actually take this power and start regulating..."

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France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

New: France said it plans to move its government computers currently running Windows to the open-source software Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. tech. Comes at a time of growing instability and unpredictability on the part of the Trump administration and weaponization of sanctions, etc.

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Congress can finally close a mass surveillance loophole — but will they? Privacy advocates warn it’s now or never.

Congress can finally close a mass surveillance loophole — but will they?

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German cyber agency braces for ‘significant disruption’ from Anthropic’s AI hacking tech A powerful new AI model unveiled by Anthropic is a “paradigm change in the nature of cyber threats,” the head of Germany’s cyber agency told POLITICO. Claudia Plattner, president of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), said her agency is in “active dialogue” with Anthropic about the company’s new model, called Mythos, that […]

German cyber agency braces for ‘significant disruption’ from Anthropic’s AI hacking tech

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How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used ICE.

Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used ICE.

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European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

En het tekenen an het Europees burgerinitiatief dat vraagt om de opschorting van het associatieverdrag tussen EU en Israël. Van de miljoen benodigde steunbetuigingen zijn er al 820.000 binnen.

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Kurdish journalist & politician Sofya Alagaş recently spoke to Freedom House about the state of journalism in Turkey & the issues facing Kurdish journalists. Alagaş herself spent a year in prison for her reporting & is currently living under a travel ban. Read more: freedomhouse.org/article/qa-p...

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The developers of VeraCrypt and WireGuard have both told me that they have regained access and their lockouts resolved. 👏

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French former hostage In Iran faces surreal tax troubles after release Former French hostage in Iran, Benjamin Brière, said his release did not end his ordeal, as he struggled with taxes, benefits and reintegration back home.

Former hostage In Iran faces surreal tax troubles in France after release

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Well, well…nerves twitching at Palantir HQ. After so many years of operating in obscurity, the spotlights and critical questions are uncomfortable. But salutary for democracy.

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Ireland's New Surveillance Bill Opens Door to Spyware Abuse Ireland is considering a new bill that would legalize the use of spyware by the police, reports Vas Panagiotopoulos.

🇮🇪Ireland is considering a new bill that would legalise the use of #spyware by the police—a move critics warn could be a boon to surveillance abuse.
➡️I spoke with @niaolainf.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social @tjmcintyre.com @aajanovic.bsky.social to learn more.

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The lines between police and security services become ever more blurred. With each step civil liberties and democracy are eroded further. Have we become any safer for it?

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It’s not just spyware scandals: EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans Millions of euros worth of EU subsidies and taxpayer money is fuelling the very market that leads to spying on journalists, activitists, politicians and people in the EU, and undermines our democracies.

Millions of euros worth of EU subsidies and taxpayer money is fuelling the very market that leads to spying on journalists, activitists, politicians and people in the EU, and undermines our democracies.

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Indeed, I am not using a glorified toaster to write anything

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Miljoenen uitzendkrachten werden jarenlang onderbetaald. De totale schade loopt op tot tientallen miljarden euro’s, en een massaclaim is in de maak.

Hoe dat zit, legt Lily je uit.

Meer weten? Het hele verhaal lees je hier 👉 www.ftm.nl/s/871a8

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Aardbevings­schade beoordelen in Groningen en Drenthe is een goudmijn voor schadebureaus Schadebureaus beoordelen of er aardbevingsschade is in Groningen en Drenthe, en om hoeveel schade het gaat. Tussen 2018 en 2025 hebben deze bureaus hier ruim 577 miljoen euro voor gekregen, grotendeel...

Wie aardbevingsschade heeft, krijgt te maken met schadebureaus. Die verdienen miljoenen aan het beoordelen van scheuren in Groningse en Drentse huizen. Geld dat afkomstig is van de belastingbetaler, maar controle op de werkwijze van de bureaus is er amper.

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Hard oordeel inspectie: politie-onderzoek naar terrorisme­lijst is volstrekt onvoldoende De inspectie oordeelt hard over onderzoek van de politie naar het gebruik van terrorismelijsten. Namen op die lijsten deelde de politie met andere landen, wat grote gevolgen kon hebben, maar de politi...

Een land niet binnenkomen omdat je op een terrorismelijst staat: het overkwam een aantal Nederlanders, naar eigen zeggen onterecht. De politie stelde een intern onderzoek in om het eigen handelen te beoordelen, en kwam tot milde conclusies. Geen logische conclusies, zegt de inspectie nu.

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Klarna geeft toe incasso­werkzaamheden uit te voeren Achterafbetaaldienst Klarna heeft zich alsnog ingeschreven in het Register Incassodienstverlening. Daarmee moet het voldoen aan bepaalde kwaliteitseisen. Eerder kwamen niet-betalende klanten nog in de...

Koop jij weleens iets met Klarna? Dan heb je vanaf nu officieel te maken met een incassodienstverlener. Het bedrijf schreef zich, een jaar te laat, in bij het Register Incassodienstverlening en erkent daarmee dat het incassowerkzaamheden uitvoert.
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“Even the mere storing of data relating to the private life of an individual amounts to an ‘interference’ within the meaning of Article 8 (Leander v. Sweden, 1987, § 48)” - European Court of Human Rights. Wat inhoudt dat er een echte reden moet zijn voor die opslag.

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💫Win for transparency and environmental protection 💫

The Commission refused to give us access to key documents on how they decided, together with Member States reps, to approve a toxic chemical in pesticides.

So we took them to court - and they confirmed that such opacity is unlawful.

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Amnesty & 30 NGOs call on the EU to act following Israel's adoption of a death penalty law that will de facto apply exclusively to Palestinians.

EU has a clear stance against the death penalty & must immediately suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
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ICE says it bought Paragon's spyware to use in drug trafficking cases | TechCrunch The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told lawmakers that the use of Paragon spyware is necessary to counter terrorists’ “thriving exploitation of encrypted communications pl...

NEW: ICE confirms that it's planning to use Paragon's spyware to counter “foreign terrorist organizations’ thriving exploitation of encrypted communication platforms.”

ICE's acting director Todd Lyons said the agency will “comply with constitutional requirements,” without specifying what those are.

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