In the media
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Bart Custers on tech companies involved in criminal activities20 September 2024Governments are increasingly cracking down on tech companies like X, Telegram and Clearview that flout the law, with a fine, ban or criminal prosecuti...
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How Princess Laurentien became entangled in a politically sensitive government responsibility17 September 2024Research conducted by Dutch news programme ‘Nieuwsuur’ into the work carried out by Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands for victims of the childcar...
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Emergency measures to tackle ‘asylum crisis’ are not legally feasible17 September 2024The Dutch government wants to use emergency measures in its asylum policy. Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber believes this has also been legally tested....
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Children are afraid to say the wrong thing to judges in divorce proceedings16 September 2024Do courts take children's experiences properly into account in divorce proceedings? Research by Villa Pinedo shows that children often fear saying the...
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Bart Custers comments on Telegram’s catalogue of crimes13 September 2024Instant messaging app Telegram is not faring well in the news – the reason being the illicit activities occurring on the platform. Professor Bart Cust...
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Does the Netherlands still have an extraparliamentary cabinet?10 September 2024A clear, unambiguous definition of an extraparliamentary cabinet is still lacking from the political arena of The Hague. Caroline van der Plas, Farmer...
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Abuse of Vlaardingen foster child reveals youth care problems10 September 2024Months after the case of the abused foster child from Vlaardingen (Zuid-Holland) came to light, many questions still remain. Why was the child not lis...
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Self-employed workers uneasy about approach to sham self-employment10 September 2024The Dutch Tax and Customs Authority is planning to start enforcing income tax and contribution obligations again following a moratorium lasting severa...
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Bart Custers writes blog post on judge who used ChatGPT09 September 2024This month, it came out that a subdistrict court judge used ChatGPT to formulate a ruling. The judge included some text generated by the popular AI ch...
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Bart Custers discusses fake news on facial recognition at Jumbo09 September 2024Misleading social media posts are falsely claiming that the Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo uses facial recognition at self-service checkouts. Jumbo den...
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Bart Custers discusses arrest of Telegram CEO in 'Trouw'09 September 2024Pavel Durov, CEO of chat and messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France last week. The Russian tech billionaire flew into Paris by private jet and...
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Complaints from universities about student use of ChatGPT are crocodile tears06 September 2024Universities should not be surprised that students use ChatGPT, write Leiden University lecturers Femke Klaver and Alexander de Wit in Dutch newspaper...
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Major errors made by UWV on WIA benefits05 September 2024Many people who are unfit for work received too much or too little in benefits payments for years because mistakes were made in calculating the wages ...
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Wim Voermans in NRC: ‘The Schoof cabinet is unpredictable, and that’s risky’03 September 2024With four coalition parties and an unelected Prime Minister, the new Dutch cabinet is unique. This has resulted in an unstable, unprecedented situatio...
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Is Syria ‘safe’ enough for refugees to be sent back?28 August 2024There’s an ongoing discussion in a number of European countries about whether Syria is safe enough to reject asylum applications. This would mean that...