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How to teach your kids about their digital privacy
2024-09-26 13:23:56
In the digital world of today, it is so important to teach children that their personal information needs to be protected. The children in today’s world are practically surrounded by various smart devices, have been posted on social media, and enjoy playing online video games. This article will help you with teaching your children about digital safety.
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Summary hearing mass claim against TikTok: October 10th, 2022
2022-10-17 07:46:35
Here you will find the summary of the first hearing against TikTok on Monday, October 10th, 2022, in the Amsterdam District Court, written by Cor Wijtvliet, member of the supervisory board of SOMI.
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If a service is free, then the users are the product
2022-04-19 07:26:40
In 2019, the BBC launched an investigation into the safety of children who were active on TikTok. The results were shocking. Over a period of 3 months, the BBC collected hundreds of sexually explicit comments and messages uploaded by children and teenagers. TikTok stated that it is doing its best to prevent such texts or at least remove them from the platform as soon as possible.
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Is Facebook losing control?
2022-03-14 13:08:50
The year 2021 did not go well for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg in particular. One PR disaster followed another. It is gradually starting to appear that Zuckerberg's club is gradually losing control of its own future.
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WhatsApp is not playing the game smart
2022-01-07 13:29:13
The year 2021 is an annus horribilis for WhatsApp. Almost everything that could go wrong has actually gone wrong. It already went wrong in January. Then the platform announced its new privacy policy. The bottom line was that anyone who wanted to (continue to) actively use WhatsApp had to allow the company to pass on all the user's data to the parent company Facebook.
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Facebook follows the lead of the tobacco industry
2021-11-18 08:49:18
In September of this year, the Wall Street Journal devoted some notable and critical articles about Facebook's actions. It would later turn out that Frances Haugen had provided the business newspaper with the necessary documents and data.
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Collective data request - Palantir
2021-11-16 09:10:34
In August 2021, SOMI has launched a collective data request to three tech companies from outside the EU: TikTok, Palantir, and Zoom. With this campaign, we request access to the personal data collected by these companies on behalf of our participants. SOMI and its participants are advised and represented by Douwe Linders from the law firm SOLV.
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Facebook is relentless
2021-11-15 10:45:22
Not 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 users, companies, politicians, and policymakers. Little is left of that good name and fame. Facebook is under fire, both in Europe and the US. Especially in Europe, policymakers are making every effort to limit the (economic) power of the company and, rather, to break it. Comparisons are not wrongly drawn with Theodore Roosevelt's struggle at the beginning of the 20th century with the great conglomerates (robber barons) of those days.
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SOMI has the largest following and the lowest participation fees in the TikTok campaign!
2021-09-10 12:11:01
As 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 children's privacy and failure to comply with GDPR obligations. In following-up to this initiative, last week two other foundations have initiated comparable claims against TikTok in The Netherlands.