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The Future of Dutch Housing Policy (Part 1)
2020-10-16 14:38:39The Future of Dutch Housing Policy (Part 1)The Netherlands has a long tradition of housing policy. Affordability (price), availability...
The future of Dutch housing policy (part 2)
2020-10-16 14:57:10The future of Dutch housing policy (part 2) Tax handling of your own homeThe Netherlands has a long tradition of housing policy....
The future of Dutch housing policy (part 3)
2020-10-19 09:03:03The future of Dutch housing policy (part 3)The scope of mortgage debtOver the past ten years, an extensive social debate has taken place...
Regional Differences
2020-10-19 09:25:21Regional DifferencesLiving in the NetherlandsThere are more than 7.2 million homes in the Netherlands. These homes are different from other...
The financial sector in the Netherlands is too powerful
2020-10-19 09:54:27The financial sector in the Netherlands is too powerfulOn October 12th, 2015, the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) has it...
Test European Mortgage Interest Rates
2020-10-19 10:31:43Test European Mortgage Interest Rates1. IntroductionThis document performs the mean-variance test for the mortgage interest in the...
Banks and mortgage interest (III)
2020-10-19 11:58:27Banks and mortgage interest (III)differ from those in the rest of Europe. About the how and why has since been discussedthere is virtually...
Do mortgage interest rates respond more strongly to the rise of interest rate than the falls of interest rate?
2020-10-19 12:50:35Do mortgage interest rates respond more strongly to the rise of 1. IntroductionOn November 15, a number of mortgage providers raised their...
Literature Dutch Mortgage Market
2020-10-20 08:07:33Literature Dutch Mortgage MarketThe Dutch mortgage interest rate has been significantly higher than the mortgage interest rate in...
Zoom made a mistake as early as 2019
2020-10-20 09:48:33Zoom made a mistake as early as 2019On July 9, 2019, an article appeared in the business magazine Forbes with the title Confirmed: Zoom...
Zoom Communications has issues with privacy
2020-10-20 10:05:56Zoom Communications has issues with privacyBecause of the coronavirus, people all over the world are forced to stay at home. Video...
The network around Zoom Communications is getting tighter
2020-10-20 10:15:39The network around Zoom Communications is getting tighterThe United States is the country of choice for class action lawsuits. In our...
Investors are angry with Zoom and they are not alone
2020-10-20 10:20:39Investors are angry with Zoom and they are not aloneZoom Communications is definitely cornered right now. More and more lawsuits are being...
Apple has a problem, TikTok and LinkedIn are taking advantage of it
2020-10-20 10:30:11Apple has a problem, TikTok and LinkedIn are taking advantage of itEvery year Appel organizes a so-called Worldwide Developers Conference...
Zoom Video Communications under Dutch law
2020-10-20 10:47:55Zoom Video Communications under Dutch lawPrinciples for reimbursementWhat are actually the grounds for doing this? We give a short summary...
Will TikTok influence the elections?
2020-10-20 12:01:47Will TikTok influence the elections?The social platform TikTok remains in the news. It has become part of the US-China trade battle....
Palantir is a household name in Europe
2020-10-20 12:20:16Palantir is a household name in EuropeThe American software house Palantir is said to be the most secretive company in Silicon Valley. It...
TikTok does not take responsibility for the "Challenges"
2020-10-21 12:30:35The social platform TikTok has become immensely popular in a short time. The number of daily visitors reaches tens of millions and the...
Zoom is an "Echternach" procession: three steps forward and two steps backward
2020-12-16 14:32:06Zoom is an "Echternach" procession: three steps forward and two steps backwardDespite repeated assurances to the contrary, Zoom kept the...
Google and Palantir both want the same thing: They are two sides of the same coin
2020-12-17 09:02:26They are two sides of the same coinIn any case, manufacturers of business software are not very well known to citizens, unlike a company...
Privacy awareness is developing rapidly, at least in the US
2020-12-17 10:38:04Privacy awareness is developing rapidly, at least in the USIt often seems that the average visitors/users of social media are little or not...
There is always boss above boss
2020-12-23 10:56:45There is always a boss above the bossWe all know, but we are still not sufficiently aware of it. Be careful with the personal information...
'More than 60,000 concerned parents oppose TikTok'
2021-04-08 09:47:41More than 60,000 concerned parents believe that regulators in Europe should intervene in the popular movie app TikTok.This article was...
How Solid Is TikTok?
2021-07-21 12:03:42There's another news about ByteDance, one of the many facts about TikTok's parent company that regularly makes the news. On March 1, this...
SOMI’s statement regarding the AP’s € 750,000 fine to TikTok
2021-08-10 07:58:17The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has imposed a fine of € 750,000 on TikTok for violating the privacy of young children. The...
SOMI’s statement regarding the AP’s € 750,000 fine to TikTok
2021-09-10 08:27:59In response to the announcement from the Netherlands Privacy Authority (the “Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens” or “AP”) on 22nd July...
SOMI has the largest following and the lowest participation fees in the TikTok campaign!
2021-09-10 09:06:11As the first organization to do so in the EU, on June 2nd 2021, SOMI has served a summons to take TikTok to court for violations of...
Foundation SOMI takes TikTok to court on behalf of minors with a claim for damages of € 1.4 billion
2021-10-08 06:34:44Badhoevedorp, 2nd June 2021 – The Foundation SOMI is suing TikTok today for violating privacy legislation through a mass claim on behalf...
Update on the damages claim against TikTok: claims filed by the Consumentenbond and the Massaschade & Consument Foundation may be invalid
2021-10-08 10:54:55Amstelveen, October 8th, 2021 – Two of the three foundations that have filed for damages against TikTok may have invalid claims. TikTok's...
SOMI starts its Facebook (Meta) collective data request
2021-11-09 11:10:04On September 1st, we have launched a campaign against Facebook data-leak, which allows users to check via SOMI app and at my.somi.nl whether...
Facebook is relentless
2021-11-15 11:45:22Not so long ago, Facebook was the most celebrated social platform in the world. In fact, the company could do no wrong in the eyes of its...
Collective data request - Palantir
2021-11-16 10:10:34In August 2021, SOMI has launched a collective data request to three tech companies from outside the EU: TikTok, Palantir, and Zoom. With...
Facebook follows the lead of the tobacco industry
2021-11-18 09:49:18In September of this year, the Wall Street Journal devoted some notable and critical articles about Facebook's actions. It would later...
WhatsApp is not playing the game smart
2022-01-07 14:29:13The year 2021 is an annus horribilis for WhatsApp. Almost everything that could go wrong has actually gone wrong. It already went wrong in...