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The Dutch government continues to struggle with algorithms, a DSA awareness campaign and more: here is a quick read through the most interesting developments at the intersection of human rights and technology from the Netherlands. Enjoy!
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Together with a coalition of civil society organisations, activists and thought leaders, we launched a website explaining how people can best make use of the DSA to increase their freedom and safety while partaking in online civil discourse. We call the campaign Stay Loud, because democracy needs the active participation of civil society actors and citizens. The campaign was the result of action research amongst civil society organizations looking into how Big Tech helps and hinders them. More
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Parliament set up a committee of inquiry to investigate why the child benefits scandal happened. The most dire conclusion from the committee's report? That nothing substantial has changed within government and that a second benefits scandal could happen at any moment. More
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Last year journalists revealed what seemed to be racial bias in one of the anti-fraud procedures of the Dutch organisation that administers student grants (DUO). The use of the algorithmic system in question was suspended pending further investigation. A few weeks ago the outgoing Minister of Education made known that the way in which grants for students living away from home were monitored, indeed had "unwittingly and unintentionally" led to discrimination. More
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The Cyber Law, an addition to the Intelligence and Security Services Act, was passed by Senate, Google launched a report concluding that the Dutch government isn't investing enough in (Google's) AI (products), and the new, and fourth-largest political party New Sociaal Contract has proposed government develop its own chat app, to decrease its reliance on WhatsApp and Signal. Sounds interesting!
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