De Fontein, the publisher of Dutch versions of Roald Dahl's books, criticized in the newspaper Trouw that hundreds of passages in the British editions had been changed because they were "offensive." "In a week and a half is the Children's Book Fair in Bologna, where we will have … | Continue reading
The Public Prosecution Service’s (OM) new investigative methods, including the seizing, tapping, and hacking of encrypted communication services, violates fundamental human rights, over 100 criminal defense attorneys said in a joint letter. | Continue reading
Three-quarters of all Dutch student data is stored in the cloud run by American tech companies Microsoft and Amazon, Het Financieele Dagblad reports based on an international study. Experts are growing increasingly concerned about higher education institutions’ use of the cloud d … | Continue reading
A remote employee of a U.S. business who was fired for refusing to leave his webcam on while he was working was awarded roughly 75,000 euros by a Dutch court for wrongful termination. The resident of Diessen, Noord-Brabant, was hired by the the Rijswijk branch of Chetu Inc., a so … | Continue reading
In less than a year, a scam involving pre-recorded English-languaged phone calls from the “ministry of justice” has resulted in at least 1.7 million euros in damage, NOS reports based on figures from the Fraud Helpdesk. Scammers pose as the Dutch authorities and say that the vict … | Continue reading
Maastricht University recently recovered a portion of ransom money it had paid to hackers several years ago. Due to fortunate timing, the amount had increased in value –– from 40,000 euros to half a million euros, De Volkskrant reported.In 2019, hackers demanded 200,000 euros in … | Continue reading
A bridge in Rotterdam that has monument status will not be dismantled so that a new superyacht belonging to Jeff Bezos can reach the sea. The 127-meter-long vessel will be the second-largest sailing yacht in the world. It is being produced by Oceanco in Alblasserdam for the Amazo … | Continue reading
Researchers in Delft managed to bring teleportation from science fiction into the real world, well, the quantum world at least. The QuTech researchers are the first in the world to succeed in teleporting data - an important development in the research into the quantum internet, T … | Continue reading
Philips seriously dropped the ball when it came to recalling and replacing its sleep apnea devices, in which users could inhale or ingest foam particles and maybe incur health damage. The manufacturer fell "substantially and structurally" short in handling the recall and informin … | Continue reading
The Cabinet will acknowledge that there has been institutional racism at part of the Tax Authority. Sources close to the government confirmed a report from RTL Nieuws that this was the outcome of deliberations in the Council of Ministers. State Secretary Marnix van Rij (Tax Offic … | Continue reading
The Amsterdam Trade Bank (ATB), a Dutch subsidiary of the Russian Alfa Bank, has been declared bankrupt. The bank's thousands of customers can get their savings back up to 100,000 euros through the Dutch deposit guarantee scheme. | Continue reading
The Dutch government may have to nationalize the gas storage facility in Bergen to make sure that the Netherlands does not run out of energy in the coming winter. Sufficient gas must be stored this summer to stock up for the winter. But Russian company Gazprom, which manages 40 p … | Continue reading
Prices in the Netherlands have risen extremely fast since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS), inflation rose to 11.9 percent last month. In February, it was still just over 7 percent. | Continue reading
A large number of police officers were dispatched to the Apple Store on the Leidseplein in Amsterdam amid reports of a violent incident there Tuesday evening. Authorities did not immediately confirm reports that two suspects were keeping at least one person hostage in the store, … | Continue reading
Dutch airline KLM announced it will stop flying to Ukraine because of the urgent travel alert issued by the Netherlands on Saturday. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned Dutch citizens not to travel to Ukraine, and said those who are there, including residents, should leave the … | Continue reading
Secret services from China and Russia are systematically approaching thousands of employees at Dutch high-tech companies via fake accounts on LinkedIn. They pose as fellow scientists or technicians, or consultants or recruiters and try to get to company secrets through blackmail … | Continue reading
Rotterdam will partly dismantle its iconic Koningshaven Bridge, better known as "De Hef" among locals, so that a new pleasure yacht for Jeff Bezos can pass through it, Rijnmond reports. This to the annoyance of the Rotterdam Historical Society, which pointed out that the municipa … | Continue reading
Benny's Vleesservice in Nijmegen won the Worst Slogan Election of 2021 with its slogan, "My balls weigh 130 grams." The slogan got 23 percent of the votes in the annual election.Benny van Es, the owner of the Nijmegen butchery, told NOS that he often gets comments about the text … | Continue reading
A mega datacenter for Facebook was given priority over other companies to connect to the electricity network, even though the center would put additional strain on the already overloaded network. Multiple officials within the Ministry of Economic Affairs had voiced their misgivin … | Continue reading
Tedros Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), undermined the findings of the expert team that traveled to China to investigate the origins of the coronavirus. Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans, who was part of the WHO team, said this to research program Zembla. … | Continue reading
Countries are missing out on 426 billion euros each year due to tax avoidance and tax evasion. This information comes from a new report conducted by non-profit organizations ActionAid and Tax Justice Network.Together with Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Luxembourg, the Nethe … | Continue reading
The Netherlands is now the world leader for the trade in electric vehicles, according to research by consulting and engineering organization Arcadis. There are many different electric vehicle models available in the country, and the market share of electric cars is outpacing that … | Continue reading
In an attempt to exclude real estate investors from parts of the Amsterdam housing market, the municipality wants to make it mandatory for homeowners to live in the home they own if it is worth 512,000 euros or less. The municipality intends to introduce this purchase protection … | Continue reading
The Ministry of Public Health is investigating a valid coronavirus access pass QR code issued in the name of Adolf Hitler. A cybercriminal created this QR code as proof that he can make valid access passes under any name, RTL Nieuws reports. They told the broadcaster that they co … | Continue reading
The murder of a 20-year-old woman on Saturday evening in Den Bosch was live-streamed on Instagram. The suspect in the case, a 21-year-old woman, was identified by police as the victim’s half-sister. | Continue reading
Electronics and tech group Samsung was fined over 39 million euros by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). According to the regulator, the South Korean company was guilty of influencing the prices that stores charged for Samsung televisions between 2013 and … | Continue reading
Taxi app Uber has to employ its drivers. From now on they fall under the collective bargaining agreement of Taxi Transport, the court ruled in a case brought by trade union FNV. Uber wanted drivers to remain self-employed, while FNV called this bogus self-employment. | Continue reading
The skull fragment of the first known Dutch Neanderthal, Krijn, that was discovered 20 years ago will soon be presented in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden with a realistic facial reconstruction.The Neanderthal was estimated to have lived between 50 to 70 thousand years ago. His skul … | Continue reading
The large municipalities in the Netherlands plan to make wide use of a legislative amendment that will allow them to designate neighborhoods where investors won't be allowed to buy cheap and medium-priced homes and rent them out, NOS found after surveying the municipalities. This … | Continue reading
Smaller entrepreneurs in the Netherlands are trying to avoid negative interest on savings by opening new accounts with different banks, Financieele Dagblad reported after speaking to Dutch banks. Various banks introduced negative interest rates on larger savings accounts over the … | Continue reading
Due to a major leak at the coronavirus testing company Testcoronanu, it was possible for anyone to create their own Covid vaccination or test certificate, RTL Nieuws reported on Sunday. Additionally, private details from about 60 thousand people who took a coronavirus test at thi … | Continue reading
Anyone remaining in four villages in the municipality of Meerssen, Limburg were told to immediately vacate the area and seek shelter elsewhere after floodwater burst through a dike on the Julinakanaal on Friday. The evacuation of buildings in the villages of Brommelen, Bunde, Geu … | Continue reading
Recently, police were able to crack encrypted chats of criminals on EncroChat, Sky and Anom. Yet, the revelation also has its downsides. The judicial system is now buckling under the weight of having to read millions of intercepted messages, 1Limburg reported.EncroChat, Sky and A … | Continue reading
The cabinet must ban bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, head of central planning office CPB, Pieter Hasekamp said in Het Financieele Dagblad. He believes that a crash of cryptocurrencies is unavoidable and that the Netherlands should act as soon as possible. | Continue reading
Dutch travel giant Booking.com is suspected of not paying sales tax on about 700 million euros in money earned through reservations made on the website. That amounts to roughly 153 million euros that was not handed over to Italian authorities from 2013 through 2019, according to … | Continue reading
Booking.com said on Friday that it will repay the 65 million euros it received in Dutch State aid, national broadcaster NOS said. | Continue reading
Dutch travel giant Booking.com has changed its own remuneration rules to make it possible to hand out multi-million dollar bonuses to its top executives even after taking three billion euros in loans last year, and 100 million euros in State aid including 65 million from the Neth … | Continue reading
The Bioveterinary Research program at Wageningen University has teamed up with startup InsectSense to developing the technology which enables bees to be trained to successfully detect coronavirus. The project is based on a finding that bees can be taught to identify the scent of … | Continue reading
Dutch parliamentarians, like their British and Baltic colleagues, had a conversation via Zoom with a deep fake imitation of the chief of staff of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Wednesday.National newspaper de Volkskrant reports that this was confirmed by the regi … | Continue reading
Chinese technology company Huawei would have had free access to KPN's mobile network in the past and could eavesdrop on all conversations. De Volkskrant writes this based on a secret report from 2010 which their editorial staff reviewed.According to the newspaper, Huawei was able … | Continue reading
Chinese technology company Huawei would have had free access to KPN's telephone network in the past and could eavesdrop on all conversations. National newspaper De Volkskrant writes this based on a secret report from 2010 to which they received access. According to the newspaper, … | Continue reading
Philips is selling its household branch to Chinese investor Hillhouse Capital for 4.4 billion euros, the Dutch company announced on Thursday. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of this year, once it's been approved by the relevant authorities, NU.nl reports … | Continue reading
Over the past three weeks authorities in the Netherlands have been monitoring live traffic on the encrypted messaging service SkyECC, which lead police and the financial crimes inspectorate FIOD to raid 75 properties on Tuesday and arrest 30 suspects. Authorities said that 28 fir … | Continue reading
The owner of a hairdressing salon in Wijlre in Limburg has come up with an innovative way to tend to customers during covid-19 times: online haircuts. "You have to come up with something to get some income because otherwise I won't be able to keep it up for long," Thibaut Vissche … | Continue reading
An arrangement needs to be made so that parents who live outside the European Union can visit their children in the Netherlands, according to Children's Ombudsman Margrite Kalverboer. There are children who haven't seen their mother or father from abroad for months and that is "r … | Continue reading
A 58-year-old man from the Netherlands has been detained for almost a month in an American detention center in El Paso (Texas) near the border with Mexico. This happened after a desperate attempt to attend the custody hearing of his three daughters (11, 10, and 5 years old). | Continue reading
Big Tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Amazon must ensure that their platform or device supports different payment service providers, so that there is a level playing field to promote innovation and development, the Dutch authority for consumers and markets ACM said on Tues … | Continue reading
On an average week day, young adults in the Netherlands spend 6 to 7 hours with a screen - for work, studies or downtime. 60 percent of young adults between the ages of 16 and 25 believe they have too much screen time, according to a survey by the Trimbos Institute for the week o … | Continue reading