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Bij geschiedenis op de Nederlandse scholen staat de Europese geschiedenis centraal. In de huidige ‘tien tijdvakken’ blijven belangrijke historische gebeurtenissen onderbelicht. Daarom: een voorstel om het lesmateriaal aan te vullen.
The social media giant is planning to set up a crypto-currency in around 12 countries by early 2020.
On the visual miracle of "slit-scan" video
The century-old tradition that the Espionage Act not be used against journalistic activities has now been broken. Seventeen new charges were filed yesterday against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. These new charges make clear that he is being prosecuted for basic journalistic tasks, including...
The Data Transparency Advisory Group just released an independent assessment of whether the metrics we share in our enforcement report are accurate and meaningful.
Dreigingsbeeld: De Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding komt terug op een vermelding van de actiegroep Kick Out Zwarte Piet in een rapport uit 2017. De groep „opereert binnen de grenzen van de wet”.
The long read: In 2017, I started getting regular messages from an anonymous Twitter user telling me my religion was ‘evil’. Eventually I responded – and he agreed to meet face to face
Female-voiced tech often gives submissive responses to queries, Unesco report finds
Facebook’s former chief security officer said Tuesday that Mark Zuckerberg should be replaced as the company’s CEO, arguing that he has too much control over the social media giant.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Daily Dot: A consumer advocacy group has found that not all Facebook users have been given the ability to opt out of the company's facial recognition. According to Consumer Reports, despite Facebook rolling out a new privacy setting last year allowing use...
If there is a new tech cold war, it is one with shots fired over a decade ago, largely by China. The questions going forward are about both leverage and values.
Ren Zhengfei says firm is fully prepared to face US bans and that 5G plans will be unaffected
On the eve of European elections, the tech giants stand accused of sabotaging the European Union’s fight against disinformation.
Experts worry that dark money groups and foreign actors could use the loophole to mislead users.
Russia is the latest country to try to find ways to police its online borders, sparking the end of the internet as we know it
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Former British MEP is sent stern letter accusing Facebook of ignoring how EU law works
Het kabinet vindt een blijvende dominante positie van digitale platforms onwenselijk. Dat belemmert de toetreding van nieuwe bedrijven en beperkt de online keuzevrijheid van consumenten en ondernemers. Staatssecretaris Mona Keijzer (Economische Zaken en Klimaat) stelt daarom vandaag in een beleidsbrief aan de Tweede Kamer drie maatregelen voor om in te kunnen grijpen bij deze mededingingsproblematiek.
Pulling apart the social network could keep the EU busy in court for a decade, says Margrethe Vestager.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s No.
When you learn to recognise the beauty in ruins and weeds, you’re really getting somewhere
The former Google CEO also claimed that employees building the search engine, Dragonfly, knew what they were working on — contradicting what they have said.
Overal ter wereld maken overheden ad hoc regels om de verspreiding van haat en desinformatie tegen te gaan. Die wetgeving zal niet slagen zolang bedrijven als Facebook en YouTube hun luiken gesloten houden en hun verantwoordelijkheid kunnen blijven afschuiven.
Mark Constantine
Why people are socializing more about crime even as it becomes rarer.
The Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes calls the company’s influence staggering and dangerous. But his solutions are incomplete and unsatisfying.
Over twee weken is het zover: de Europese Parlementsverkiezingen. Een goed moment om eens de cijfers in te duiken: hoe pro-Europees zijn Nederlanders eigenlijk? En waarom leven die verkiezingen nog zo weinig?
At Google I/O, Google was the opposite of defensive: the company set out to make the case that its approach made for better products that makes people’s lives better
Wie Facebook zegt, zegt: schandalen. Je zou verwachten dat de aandeelhouders van Facebook het bedrijf afstraffen voor alle misleiding, privacyschending en ander wangedrag. Maar doen ze dat ook? Om daar achter te komen, onderzochten we de invloed van de schandalen op de aandelenkoers van Facebook.
I analyzed six months of articles on De Correspondent to get a hint of what we might see on the English-language site. What I found didn't always match the marketing.
Because what good is a panopticon if you can't generate some clicks?
An Amazon-owned firm is hiring editors to push local crime news to its users.
Persgroep Nederland, uitgever van onder meer Algemeen Dagblad, de Volkskrant, Trouw en regionale kranten, overtreedt de privacywet met het plaatsen van onlinemedia cookiemuren.
Via de rechter veranderingen in migratiebeleid afdwingen. Dat probeert een groep Europese mensenrechtenadvocaten al jaren. Een explainer over hoe dat in z’n werk gaat en welke ongewenste gevolgen het kan hebben.
Despite privacy scandals, Facebook is more profitable than ever
The WikiLeaks founder is not the only prominent figure to use a book as a prop that says a great deal in a very short space of time.
Met de vermaarde Belgische reporter Pascal Verbeken ging ik op pad door Brussel – broedplaats voor utopische vergezichten, maar ook een stad zonder identiteit. Die van iedereen is, maar ook van niemand – en daardoor verslonst. En toch ‘een jazzy gevoel’ geeft als je erdoor wandelt.
A group of likely Chinese hackers has poisoned the software of at least six companies in just the last three years.
Rental firm fuming after consultancy 'never delivered a functional site or mobile app'
Hertz has sued Accenture for the failure of a $32m digital project to overhaul its website, but who is really at fault here?
"Smart" doorlocks have policies that let landlords and third parties spy on you
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Palantir previously claimed its software was strictly involved in criminal investigations as opposed to deportations. This was false.
Gmail servers have been randomly rejecting my personal mail with vague SMTP errors about spam detection.
Following an anonymous complaint, the director of the National Museum in Warsaw took down the works of Natalia LL, Katarzyna Kozyra, and the duo Karolina Wiktor and Aleksandra Kubiak, sparking #bananagate.
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