On 3 June 2010 the Advertising Code Committee (“RCC”) allowed a complaint from environmental organization Greenpeace about an advertising campaign of the oil company Trafigura. The RCC ruled that Trafigura had violated the rules of the Dutch Advertising Code in this advertising campaign, which concerned the Probo Koala affair. In half-page-sized advertisements about the Probo Koala affair, [Read more…] about Advertising Code Committee: Advertising Campaign Trafigura on Probo Koala Affair Misleading
The Neighbouring Rights Act (NRA) inter alia grants rights to performing artists and phonogram producers (for instance record companies) with regard to the exploitation – in brief: publication and reproduction – of their performances and phonograms, respectively (read: the first recording of sounds/music). With regard to a publication of a phonogram that has been released for commercial purposes, or a reproduction thereof, for instance playing a Madonna CD 
Municipal councillor Stoelinga of the city of Delft (formerly Leefbaar Delft, currently Onafhankelijk Delft) accused former alderman Baljé of the political party VVD of corruption as a result of incriminating video and sound recordings from 2004 and 2005 of the alderman having several telephone conversations. In total there are approximately four hours of video recordings. A clip of the images is published online 
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The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is of the 
In the end of 2009 the European Parliament adopted the telecom reform package containing an amendment of the rules on the use of cookies. It is expected that these amendments will be transposed into Dutch legislation in April 2011. The amendments include an adaptaion of the regulation of cookies. The question is what the amended e-Privacy Directive will change in this respect. The new Article 5 (3) stipulates with respect to the installation 
Media Report reported 
In various TV broadcasts Vara’s program ‘Kassa’ gave attention to the large number of complaints that the Consumer Authority and the Ombudsman had received about telecom company Pretium. In the broadcast Kassa handed over a ‘few kilos of complaints’ to the State Secretary, but did not provide Pretium with a copy of these complaints. However, in the studio Pretium was given the opportunity to give a reaction, but Pretium decided not to.
