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CSAM Regulation Update: Dutch Intelligence agency weighs in

Published: October 1, 2024 17:52

A quick update - The European Commission and EU member states have been pondering, for years now, if they should force WhatsApp/Apple/Signal/Telegram to scan all our private messages for suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM). For various reasons it…

Alles voor de kinderen, maar doe dan wel het juiste

Published: September 30, 2024 06:55

De hele korte versie: Om kinderen zo goed mogelijk te beschermen zijn er veel dingen die we onmiddellijk kunnen doen, zoals investeren in oplossen achterstanden bij de politie. Het is juist niet behulpzaam nu de nieuwe EU CSAM-verordening te steunen, want…

Brief positie regering over de CSAM-verordening

Published: September 17, 2024 16:10

De brief is ook beschikbaar als PDF. Prof. Dr. Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius legt terloops in zijn brief uit waarom het voorliggende voorstel juridisch onhoudbaar is. Verder schreef ook ISOC NL een brief. Geachte ministers en staatssecretarissen,…

The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud

Published: August 19, 2024 10:30

Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM, Dutch and Euractiv, English). And this wasn’t the first time either something like this has happened (PV Magazine). As usual, huge thanks are due to the many beta…

Nuclear power: no, yes, maybe, but not like this

Published: August 10, 2024 08:33

This is a story in three acts, where we go from “trying to procure more nuclear power plants in 2024 is nuts”, to “I could see why you’d want some nuclear”, to “but if so, not like this”. This post has been quite a trip to write, where I rediscovered that…

Gaia-X is a distraction which should be abandoned

Published: July 25, 2024 10:50

It pains me that I have to write this, but Gaia-X is a harmful and expensive distraction, and it is not doing anything that will ever get us a “European cloud”, not even indirectly. Its very existence is holding back progress. For this reason, Gaia-X…

Hoe soeverein wil je zijn?

Published: July 15, 2024 16:00

Dit artikel is eerder ook verschenen in het tijdschrift iBestuur Soeverein is een duur woord, en het klinkt lekker. Iedereen zou het graag willen zijn, maar zoiets komt met kosten en ongemak. Het is daarom nuttig het begrip op te splitsen om te kijken wat…

Europe Must Invest in Space/Autonomy/AI/Defence

Published: July 9, 2024 08:51

“Be even more suspicious than I was just telling you to be, of all those who employ the term ‘we’ or ‘us’ without your permission. This is another form of surreptitious conscription, designed to suggest that ‘we’ are all agreed on ‘our’ interests and…

De cloud is geen paracetamolfabriek

Published: July 7, 2024 10:51

Er is recent veel discussie over digitale autonomie, en Europa’s “positie in de cloud”. Maandag 8 juli vanaf 14:00 is er een event “Digitale soevereiniteit: zin of onzin” bij Instituut Clingendael. Dit is (na inschrijving) ook online bij te wonen. Corinne…