[ad_1] Cell tower attacks aren’t just a UK phenomenon. De Telegraaf reports (via Reuters) that attackers committed arson or sabotage against several cell towers in the Netherlands, four of them just in the past week. The incidents were likely fuelled by anti-5G panic, with at least one perpetrator spraying a slogan opposing the new wireless […]
Category: netherlands
Facebook just lost its last fact-checker in the Netherlands
[ad_1] The problem started when NU.nl labeled an ad from Dutch politician Esther de Lange as false, saying it couldn’t be verified. Facebook then stepped in, telling the newspaper that a politician’s speech could not be fact-checked. Facts are not a form of activism. While Facebook’s advertising guidelines don’t allow misinformation, it formally exempted politicians […]
Germany and the Netherlands form a joint military network
[ad_1] The unification will eventually include a head office in Koblenz, Germany, but there will be a design center at the barracks in the Dutch town of Amersfoort. On top of improving communication in the heat of battle, this will ideally speed the rollout of new technologies and standards. It could bolster their defenses against […]
Outage in Netherlands knocks out emergency services for hours
[ad_1] The Dutch were given a frightening lesson about society’s reliance on technology. A major telecommunications outage knocked Netherland’s version of 911 offline for a few hours on Monday, reported Reuters. The outage originated on Royal KPN’s network and impacted both landlines and mobile phones. It’s unclear what caused the event, though KPN has ruled […]
The Netherlands places missing child alerts on ATMs
[ad_1] The ATMs will display information on two types of urgent messages: Amber alerts, when a child has been reported missing and is in immediate danger, and Vermist Kind alerts, which are issued when authorities are worried about the wellbeing of a missing child. In both cases, the machines will display photos of the missing […]
Botched update crashes hundreds of Netherlands police ankle monitors
[ad_1] This isn’t the first time the Netherlands has had to deal with an outage, albeit not for the same reasons — this one was under police control. A cellular network outage in August 2018 knocked out connections to 450 ankle monitors, forcing a similar scramble. The wearables are frequently helpful for police by giving […]