Buy a bag with dozens of unopened small packages for 50 euros. That may sound like a bad deal, but there are plenty of people out there who are interested. These bags of mystery packages are increasingly being offered on social media and buying and selling websites such as Marktplaats; often they sell out within…
Twitter has blocked the account of the influential Indian actress Kangana Ranaut. She has been guilty of hate speech and insulting people, the company says. Twitter would have warned the Bollywood actress several times. Ranaut is a fanatic supporter of Indian Prime Minister Modi. Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was defeated in local elections last weekend….
It’s two in the morning when Epic, the creator of the hit game Fortnite, executes a carefully prepared plan. That night, August last year, the company’s CEO sends an email to Apple. Message: we are going to introduce our own payment system in Fortnite. It’s a kind of declaration of war. Apple is acting fast…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has imposed a fine of 600,000 euros on the municipality of Enschede for Wi-Fi tracking. According to the regulator, the privacy of citizens was not properly guaranteed. It is the first time that a government has been fined by the AP. Enschede began measuring the traffic in the city center…
It was an unprecedentedly favorable quarter for Apple. Never before has the tech company converted so much as in the first three months of this year. Sales amounted to nearly 74 billion euros, 54 percent more than in the same period the year before. Profits doubled. Of all products and services, the phones sold the…
Google is working on a fix for a privacy issue in the CoronaMelder app. The error is in the underlying system and not the app itself. The Ministry of Health is not yet able to say when the problem has been resolved. The Dutch Data Protection Authority wants clarity from the tech giant as soon…
Tech companies Alphabet and Microsoft will continue to benefit from the changed behavior of consumers, advertisers and employers in the corona pandemic in the first months of this year. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, posted record earnings for the second consecutive quarter. Earnings – $ 17.9 billion on sales of about $ 55 billion – in…
CEO Tim Cook defended the choice earlier this month in a podcast by tech journalist Kara Swisher. “All we’re doing here is giving the user a choice of whether or not to be tracked. I’m shocked there’s so much resistance to it. How can you be against this?” In addition, Cook says that digital advertising…
Leonid Volkov, the chief of staff of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is surprised that Dutch MPs have been misled by an impersonator who pretended to be Volkov. That happened last Wednesday during a conversation held via Zoom. The parliamentary standing committee on Foreign Affairs thought it had a meeting with Volkov, who operates…
Much is still unclear about the conversation that Dutch MPs had on Wednesday with someone who apparently pretended to be Leonid Volkov, a high-ranking employee of the Russian opposition leader Navalny. Navalny is in a Russian penal camp and was on a hunger strike until yesterday in protest against his treatment and lack of medical…