2025-09-24 13:44:40

The trend of AI companions is rapidly increasing, especially among vulnerable children and teens. In some cases, chatbots are perceived as even more “real” than a human friend. Beyond this facade, AI chatbots can pose significant risks to young users.

2025-08-08 13:44:40

Imagine you are out in public, and a stranger approaches you. He’s developing a new technology, and for it to work, he needs to ingest all data about you that you or anyone else has ever put online. Once you give him permission to do so, you won’t ever be able to change your mind and get it back. And once he develops his new technology, he alone will profit off your data, which he will sell to thousands of companies and governments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.