Juliette Kuiper

Enschede council fined for snooping on citizens via their phones 0
- News
- May 18, 2021
The Dutch privacy watchdog has fined Enschede local council for tracking its residents using their mobile phones to keep an eye on how busy parts of the city centre are. In total, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens has fined the council €600,000 for using wifi tracking which could be traced back to individuals. This, the watchdog said,
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3D printed home in Eindhoven welcomes tenants in European first 0
- News
- May 13, 2021
Tenants have now moved in to Europe’s first fully 3D printed house, which has been built out of layers of concrete in Eindhoven. The house, a detached single-storey home with two bedrooms, is designed to look like a boulder to fit in with the natural surroundings, while at the same time demonstrating the versatility of
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Canada’s Clearco to enter the Netherlands; looks to invest €100M in online Dutch startups 0
- Business
- May 10, 2021
Last month, Clearbanc announced a rebranding (to Clearco) and a $100M (approx €83M) in new Series C equity funding to fuel the company’s ambitious growth plans. This round valued the firm at nearly $2B. Enters the Netherlands Recently, Clearco (formerly Clearbanc) has announced its entry into the Netherlands to help Dutch startups grow their business. The Toronto-based company is
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Volkskrant apologises for anti-Semitic cartoon of pollster Maurice de Hond 0
- News
- April 27, 2021
The Volkskrant newspaper has apologised for publishing a cartoon featuring opinion pollster Maurice de Hond with anti-Semitic overtones. The full-page cartoon depicted a grinning De Hond, who is of Jewish heritage, holding two sets of puppet strings in his oversized hands, echoing the ‘puppet master’ trope used in Nazi propaganda of the 1930s and 1940s.
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