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The European Commission says one thing with the Digital Omnibuses, but does something else
Afgelopen november publiceerde de Europese Commissie de Digitale Omnibussen. Een stapel voorstellen die door allerlei belangrijke digitale rechten een streep dreigen te halen. In dit artikel gaan we dieper in wat de voorgestelde wetswijzigingen inhouden.
Dutch government has more allies than it realises
The Netherlands claims to be on her own when opposing client side device scanning, while she has more allies than she realizes.
Repression is really something different than prevention
In the Netherlands the mayor is responsible for maintaining public order. However, local rules do not provide the authority to preventively curtail the freedom of expression, and certainly not on digital platforms.
The selective hearing of Ylva Johansson
How cool: commissioner Johansson came to receive the people’s choice award of the Big Brother Awards in person. However, it stings a bit, because she is very selective about when and with whom she enters into discussion.
Who does the EU legislator listen to, if it ain’t the experts?
There’s a huge gap between the advice given by experts on child sexual abuse and the legislative proposal of the European Commission.
European Commission must have greater ambition in combating sexual violence
Last year, the European Commission made a far-reaching proposal to protect children against sexual violence. But a study by Delft University shows that there is a lot wrong with the substantiation of the proposal.
A power struggle rages for your data
Here’s what we think of the new rules on how the secret services should handle bulk data.
A limited ban on biometric surveillance undermines its own potential
We spoke in the European Parliament about how a limited ban on biometric surveillance undermines its own protection.
Europol is going to collect a massive collection of porn of European youngsters
You do not help children and young people by making Europol compete with Pornhub.
Sex crimes unit already overwhelmed, and EU lawmakers will only make it worse
Dutch sex crimes investigators are already overloaded. The European Commission has plans that will only make this worse by generating a plethora of, often unjustified, reports.
Google accuses you of child abuse? Impossible! Right?
When technology companies use computes to detect material of sexual abuse of children, mistakes will be made. As a result, innocent users are wrongly accused of child sexual abuse.
Don’t restrict encryption before alternatives have been explored, says advisory council
Dutch cabinet’s most important advisory body concerning cyber security: don’t restrict encryption before alternatives have been explored.
Dutch government needs to act now to stop EU from killing end-to-end encryption
Last week, the Dutch government was instructed by parliament to ensure the availability of end-to-end encryption and to oppose any European proposal that would do the opposite. Now, the Dutch government has to actively oppose the harmful proposal of the European Commission that would undermine the one technology we can use to ensure the confidentiality of our communication.
Hooray! We freed the data of millions of people from the clutches of the secret services!
Hooray! We freed the data from millions of citizens from the clutches of the secret services!
We filed a complaint against the secret services on behalf of millions of citizens
We filed a complaint against the sercret services on behalf of millions of citizens