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New Dutch class action targets Meta
2023-11-09 13:50:11This article was published on November 7th, 2023 on Global Data Review. Written by Nadine Daher.An NGO has filed a material and non-material...
After TikTok, the Dutch foundation aims at owner Facebook with a billion-dollar claim
2023-11-15 09:46:44This article was published on October 26th, 2023 on Mlex. Written by Sam Clark.Facebook is facing a privacy class action in the Netherlands,...
Dutch foundation behind case against TikTok claims billions from Facebook
2024-02-06 12:50:40This article was published on October 25th, 2023 on Villamedia.nlThe Dutch Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI) is starting a claim...
Foundation behind case against TikTok claims billions from Facebook
2024-02-06 12:50:23This article was published on October 25th, 2023 on Nieuws.nlThe Dutch Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI) is starting a claim...
Dutch foundation claims billions from Facebook for privacy violations
2023-11-01 11:49:34This article was published on October 25th, 2023 on RTLnieuws.nlThe Dutch Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI) is starting a claim...
Foundation behind case against TikTok claims billions from Facebook
2023-11-01 11:37:58This article was published on October 25th, 2023 on MSN.comAMSTELVEEN (ANP) - The Dutch Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI) is...
Foundation behind case against TikTok claims billions from Facebook
2024-02-06 13:05:19The Dutch Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI) is starting a claim case against Facebook parent company Meta Platforms due to...
Dutch foundation behind lawsuit against TikTok claims billions from Facebook
2024-02-06 12:52:42This article was published on October 25th, 2023 on Agconnect.nl.The Dutch Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI) is starting a claim...
SOMI Foundation starts new case worth more than 10 billion euros against Meta (Facebook)
2023-10-30 15:08:27This article was published on Riskcompliance.nl on October 26th, 2023.The Market Information Research Foundation, abbreviated as SOMI,...
After TikTok, the Dutch foundation is targeting Facebook with a billion-dollar claim
2023-10-30 15:00:54This article was published on Ad.nl on October 25th, 2023.The Dutch Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI) is launching a claim...
SOMI Foundation starts new €12.7 billion case against Meta (Facebook), collective case against TikTok proceeds
2023-11-08 15:37:20Amstelveen, October 25, 2023 – Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI) announces new litigation against Meta for privacy violations...
Dutch claim organizations can sue TikTok for privacy violation
2022-11-10 14:44:52This article was published on Actuma.nlThree claim organizations that want to sue TikTok for privacy violations have received the green...
Judge: 'Dutch foundations can sue TikTok'
2022-11-10 14:25:58Three Dutch foundations that want to file a lawsuit against TikTok have been given the green light. Together they demand about 9.4 billion...
Judge: TikTok can be sued in Dutch mass claim
2022-11-10 14:06:16TikTok can be sued in the Netherlands, the judge has ruled. TikTok thought it was avoiding a Dutch mass claim because it is not located in...
Amsterdam court allows Dutch claim with the worth of billions against TikTok
2022-11-09 14:43:02Three Dutch foundations are allowed to continue with their billion-dollar claims against TikTok. The social medium is said to have committed...
Bad news for TikTok: Dutch privacy case continues
2022-11-09 14:35:21The court in Amsterdam has given the green light for a mass claim against TikTok. Three claim organizations want to sue the social network...
Foreign investors cause mass claims boom in the Netherlands, fear of overloading the legal system
2022-02-17 11:11:26“This is a big business,” says Cor Wijtvliet of the Foundation for Market Information Research, which last year filed a claim of 1.4...
Procedures against suffered damage from TikTok
2022-12-06 11:06:12Several Dutch organizations have initiated proceedings against TikTok. Two of the three foundations may have an invalid claim. TikTok's...
Update on the damages claim against TikTok: claims filed by the Consumentenbond and the Massaschade & Consument Foundation may be invalid
2021-10-08 10:59:23Amstelveen, October 8th, 2021 – Two of the three foundations that have filed for damages against TikTok may have invalid claims. TikTok's...
Foundation SOMI takes TikTok to court on behalf of minors with a claim for damages of € 1.4 billion
2022-12-06 11:05:56Badhoevedorp, 2nd June 2021 – The Foundation SOMI is suing TikTok today for violating privacy legislation through a mass claim on behalf...
Foundation SOMI starts collective investigation into 533 million leaked Facebook accounts
2022-12-06 11:04:59As of today, the SOMI Foundation makes it possible for all European consumers to check via its SOMI app whether they have become a victim of...
SOMI Foundation starts crowdsourcing research into Facebook data breach
2021-09-01 11:37:03Foundation SOMI has announced that it will start a collective investigation into 533 million leaked Facebook accounts and let consumers...
Millions of Dutch People Have a Chance to Win Money after Facebook Leak
2021-09-01 11:26:31Following the data breach that hit Facebook in April this year, millions of Dutch people have a chance to win money on Facebook. The...
Foundation offers 1000 euros to people who prove that Facebook violates their rights
2022-12-06 11:04:39Through the app of the Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI), Facebook users can check whether their data is on the digital...
Large collective request for access to personal data from tech giants
2022-12-06 11:04:10Today, the Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI) is submitting the largest European collective application for personal data. It...
65,000 Europeans request personal data from Zoom, Palantir and TikTok
2021-07-30 10:46:51About 65,000 Europeans have submitted a request to video calling service Zoom, data collector Palantir and video app TikTok about what...
Collective data request under the GDPR with tech giants
2022-12-06 11:03:44The SOMI Foundation submits the largest European collective request for personal data to tech giants TikTok, Zoom and Palantir. According to...
Tens thousands requests for personal information from tech companies
2022-12-06 11:03:31About 65,000 people will join three major tech companies on Thursday to ask what personal data is being collected about them. They are...
Tens thousands of collective request of personal data from tech companies
2021-07-30 10:09:15About 65,000 people asked three major tech companies on Thursday what data they have collected about them. The tens of thousands of people...
Data trading can become lucrative for consumers
2022-12-06 11:02:22TikTok is being called to court by two organizations that want to distribute approximately 1.5 billion euros in compensation among the...
TikTok Sued in the Netherlands for 1.7 Billion USD Over Collecting Children’s Data
2022-12-06 11:02:11Meanwhile, TikTok is also collecting American biometric dataThis article was published on 8th June 2021 on The Epoch Times. Written by Alex...
TikTok targeted with lawsuit in Netherlands over collecting data on kids
2021-06-10 11:58:47TikTok has been targeted with a 1.4 billion euro lawsuit.This article is published on 8th June 2021 on Just the News. Written by Alex...
Tiktok sues in the Netherlands for 1.7 billion USD for collecting child data
2022-12-06 11:01:56The Amsterdam Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI), which represents 64,000 Dutch parents, has sued Tiktok for 1.4 billion euros...
TikTok sued on behalf of minors
2022-12-06 11:01:26Yesterday, June 2, the SOMI Foundation summoned TikTok for violating privacy legislation through a mass claim on behalf of parents of...
Dutch foundation wants compensation from TikTok for violating children's privacy
2021-06-03 10:58:08Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI) sues TikTok. A group of 64,000 Dutch parents is claiming compensation from TikTok through...
Mass claim of 1.4 billion euros against TikTok for violation of children's privacy
2021-06-03 10:48:30The Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI) is taking the popular app TikTok to court for violating privacy legislation. TikTok...
Billion Euro claim against TikTok from Dutch parents: 'Personal data is processed without permission'
2022-03-22 11:04:20Video app TikTok receives a claim of almost 1.5 billion from a group of Dutch parents. "The app processes far too much personal data without...
Tens of thousands of parents file a claim against TikTok for 'flawed' protection
2022-03-18 12:05:34More than 64,000 parents from Europe have filed a compensation claim with TikTok. They feel that the app does not protect the safety and...
TikTok taken to task over Dutch child privacy
2022-12-06 11:00:33A Netherlands-based non-profit organisation initiated a lawsuit against social media app TikTok seeking €1.4 billion in compensation for...
TIKTOK GOES TO COURT OVER PRIVACY, AGAIN
2021-06-03 09:22:51The Market Information Research Foundation - SOMI - is taking TikTok to court for violating the privacy rules. TikTok would also do too...
Dutch parents sue TikTok for violation of children's privacy
2021-06-03 09:15:26A group of 64,000 Dutch parents has filed a claim against the company behind the social media app TikTok. They are demanding more than a...
Why parents demand 1.4 billion euros from TikTok
2022-12-06 11:00:07Parents of children who use the popular app TikTok are filing a claim against the company behind that app. They believe that the app does...
Concerned parents claim more than 1 billion euros from video app TikTok
2022-12-06 10:58:34Parents of children who use the popular app TikTok are filing a claim against the company behind that app. They want an amount that they say...
Dutch parents take TikTok to court with damage claim of 1.4 billion
2022-12-06 10:58:20Foundation for Market Information Research (Somi) sues social media platform TikTok. The foundation does this on behalf of European parents:...
Dutch foundation demands 1 billion euros in compensation from TikTok on behalf of parents
2022-12-06 10:58:09Parents of children who use the popular app TikTok are filing a claim against the company behind that app. The compensation amount could...
Concerned parents claim more than 1 billion euros from video app TikTok
2021-06-02 11:56:03The case was brought by the Market Information Research Foundation (SOMI), which represents more than 64,000 parents. One of the founders of...
Dutch foundation targets TikTok in €1.4 billion negligence lawsuit
2021-06-02 11:50:37The Dutch market research foundation SOMI filed a lawsuit against TikTok on Wednesday on behalf of thousands of concerned parents, who...
Dutch Foundation claims for damages up to 1.4 billion euros against TikTok
2022-12-06 10:57:45Dutch parents of children who use TikTok file a claim against the company behind the popular video app. They want an amount that they say...
Dutch parents file compensation claim of more than billion euros against TikTok
2021-06-02 11:23:06Dutch parents of children who use the popular app TikTok file a claim against the company behind that app. They want an amount that they say...
TikTok receives collective damage claim: 'Privacy of children are too little protected'
2022-12-06 10:57:10The makers of the wildly popular app TikTok can expect a hefty claim in the mailbox. A group of parents of children who use the app file a...
Dutch parents sue TikTok for abusing children's privacy
2021-06-02 10:41:55A group of Dutch parents is starting a lawsuit against TikTok because they believe that the app does not sufficiently protect the safety and...
Foundation files a compensation claim against TikTok on behalf of tens of thousands of parents
2022-12-06 10:56:55Dutch parents of children who use the popular video app TikTok submit a claim for damages against the company behind that app via Stichting...
Dutch foundation demands 1.4 billion euros from TikTok on behalf of parents
2022-12-06 10:56:45A Dutch foundation files a claim for compensation with TikTok on behalf of concerned parents. The parents accuse the video app of negligence...
Dutch foundation takes popular app TikTok to court
2021-06-02 09:35:40On Wednesday, the Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI) will send a subpoena to the popular social media app TikTok. Parents of...
TikTok unable to verify ages, Irish data watchdog told
2022-12-06 10:56:10Video app ‘negligent’ in monitoring site, claims think tankThis article was published on 12th April 2021 on The Times UK. Written by...
More than 60,000 European parents involved are against TikTok
2021-04-12 10:57:22According to SOMI, concerns about the Chinese platform among parents are greater than ever after another fatal incident with the so-called...
Parents want EU regulators to intervene at TikTok
2022-12-06 10:55:54More than 60,000 concerned parents believe that regulators in Europe should intervene with the video app TikTok, because it does not do...
Shownieuws - 8th April 2021 - Late Edition
2021-04-09 14:56:50Click here to watch the interview with SOMI co-founder Cor Wijtvliet in Dutch (19:30)
Parents oppose TikTok after deadly incident
2022-12-06 10:55:21More than 60,000 concerned parents believe that regulators in Europe should intervene in the popular video app TikTok because it does not do...
EU regulators urged to ‘intervene immediately’ into suicide games on TikTok
2022-12-06 10:55:06EU regulators have been urged to ‘intervene immediately’ into the operation of video-sharing app TikTok, following the trend of...
More than 60,000 concerned European parents oppose TikTok
2022-12-06 10:54:57More than 60,000 concerned parents believe that regulators in Europe should intervene in the popular video app TikTok because it does not do...
Interest group steps up their battle against TikTok
2022-12-06 10:54:45The Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI) now represents more than 60,000 consumers in a collective claim against TikTok. Now...
'More than 60,000 concerned parents oppose TikTok'
2021-12-09 15:36:27More than 60,000 concerned parents believe that regulators in Europe should intervene in the popular movie app TikTok.This article was...
Hart van Nederland - 14th February 2021 - Latenight
2021-02-15 12:21:51Click here to watch the interview with SOMI co-founder Cor Wijtvliet in Dutch (17:33)
SBS 5uurshow Thursday 28th January
2021-02-15 12:10:47Click here to watch the interview with SOMI co-founder Cor Wijtvliet - in Dutch (35:57)
A wave of class actions is coming for Big Tech
2022-12-06 10:54:03European consumer groups are eyeing cases on data protection and sustainability.This article was published on 2 February 2021 on...
TikTok is under fire again, what can brands do?
2022-12-06 10:53:24Again, TikTok doesn't seem to be able to guarantee users' safety. What has to happen? And what can brands do?This article was published on...
Regulators must intervene to protect young TikTok users
2022-12-06 10:53:08Dutch and European regulators have to intervene with the video app TikTok to guarantee the safety of users. That is the opinion of the...
'Regulators in the Netherlands must now intervene at TikTok'
2022-12-06 10:52:56Dutch and European regulators now have to intervene with the video app TikTok to guarantee the safety of users. That is the view of the...
'Dutch regulators must now intervene at TikTok'
2022-12-06 10:52:42The Foundation for Market Information Research raises the alarm after the death of two children as a result of TikTok challenges.This...
Dutch privacy group calls for investigation into Palantir due to privacy concerns
2020-12-23 10:40:03According to ComputerWeekly, the Dutch privacy group SOMI is calling for an investigation into the activities of controversial data...
Dutch Group Calls for Scrutiny of Palantir Over Opaque Partnerships With EU Law Enforcement Agencies, Possible Privacy Violations
2020-12-23 10:39:58SOMI, a Dutch privacy group, is calling for a large-scale investigation into the partnerships that data analytics company Palantir...
Palantir dives deep into the red
2022-12-06 10:50:47The American big data analysis security specialist Palantir saw its revenue increase by 52 percent in the third quarter of its fiscal year...
Privacy advocates call for a European investigation into Palantir
2022-12-06 10:50:10The Dutch privacy group SOMI is calling for a wide-ranging investigation into the activities of the controversial data analytics firm...
Privacy advocates demand a European survey of Palantir
2022-12-06 10:49:47The Dutch privacy group SOMI is calling for an extensive investigation into the activities of the controversial data analytics firm Palantir...
Privacy advocates call for European probe into Palantir
2022-12-06 10:49:24Dutch group SOMI is trying to raise awareness of Palantir’s data privacy practices and how it works with European government agenciesThis...
Privacy advocates are calling for a European investigation into Palantir
2022-12-06 10:49:15The Dutch privacy group SOMI calls for a comprehensive investigation into the EU-wide activities of the disputed data analytics firm...
TikTok's GDPR compliance is under investigation for allegations of data misuse
2022-12-06 10:49:04TikTok does not fulfill its obligation to protect children who use its services and is likely to collect and distribute juvenile personal...
Palantir Technologies suspected of privacy issues
2020-11-17 09:06:59Foundation Research Market Information (SOMI) represents European citizens in research into the activities of the American data analysis...
SOMI app gives you control over your data
2020-11-17 09:07:57Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI) has launched the SOMI app. With the app, consumers can request their personal data from...
Action Against TikTok: 'Insufficient Protection of Children and Violation of GDPR Regulations
2020-10-20 12:43:24This article was published on 28 July 2020 on AboutICT.nl in the Netherlands.TikTok falls short of protecting children using the app. This...
The problem called TikTok: 'Breaking into children's accounts'
2020-10-20 12:43:43The short TikTok videos with funny dances and cheerful music seem completely innocent at first sight. “But that's not it,” says Dutch...
Parents urged to hand over details for TikTok class action
2022-12-06 10:20:51A Dutch privacy non-profit is collecting information from parents to bolster an impending collective lawsuit against video-sharing app...
Fingers pointing at TikTok
2020-11-03 16:42:09TikTok must be safer, says Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI). They think that TikTok falls short in protecting children who...
Violation of children's privacy when using TikTok
2022-12-06 10:20:19TikTok is the popular social media app of Chinese origin. You can record short music videos with it and share them with the world. However,...
Action against TikTok: 'Insufficient protection of children and violation of GDPR regulations'
2022-12-06 10:18:55TikTok falls short of protecting children using the app. That is what the Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI) claims. The app...
The Chinese app TikTok is finally being tackled
2022-12-06 10:18:14The Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI) calls on parents worldwide to report to the foundation when their children have used...
TikTok’s GDPR compliance probed amid accusations of data misuse
2020-10-20 12:45:53Dutch privacy organisation SOMI claims TikTok falls short in protecting young users, and that it is likely violating GDPRThis article was...
The Foundation for Market Information Research starts research into TikTok
2022-12-06 10:17:36The Foundation for Market Information Research (SOMI) is calling on parents worldwide to join an action against TikTok. TikTok may have...
Does TikTok Violate Children's Privacy?
2022-12-06 10:17:15The United States, India, South Korea: More and more countries are concerned about TikTok. Is the Netherlands lagging behind in this?This...