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DIGITAL COVER-UP: AT LEAST 64 MILLION DOCUMENTS CONTAINING CRUCIAL INFORMATION FOUND AFTER SEVEN YEARS
State Secretaries Sandra Palmen-Schlangen and Eelco Eerenberg have announced that an investigation is being launched into the digital safe containing at least 64 million documents discovered “in July 2025”. The vault (this is a storage environment closed to employees: the Q drives) contains information that was made untraceable seven years earlier. Not available provided with WOO requests and inquiries. Not available to parents and entrepreneurs who received reviews. The House of Representatives of the States General was also unaware.
“We did not listen enough and cared for our children in the families that faced major recoveries”
LONGREAD CREATED TO STUDY INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN 2022/2023 The conclusion of the January 2023 CBS report should not have read: “The benefits affair has not increased the chance of a child protection measure”, but: “We have...
FIVE YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE RUTTE CABINET, SIZE IS CLEARER
SCALE OF THE SCANDAL INCREASINGLY CLEAR Five years ago, on January 15, 2021, the Rutte-III cabinet fell. “An historic low point, this part of our national history. A scandal so big. Citizens were wronged and...
'Benefits affair' fraudster still haunts
Paula's mortgage application was not approved © Omroep Gelderland In a new episode of In het Vizier van De Jager, victims of the benefits scandal say that they are still seen as fraudsters. Despite canceled debts and government commitments, they say a “check mark” remains behind their name - with banks, insurers and commercial data agencies. And that leads to major problems.
Risk Model (RAM) serious violation of fundamental rights according to AP
November 2025 The Unmasking of the Risk Analysis Model (RAM): Legal Analysis, Political Accountability and the Systemic Challenges for Government Data Governance This text analyses the political and legal resolution of...
More than 50 algorithms of the tax authorities are illegal, says Data Protection Authority
Many checks carried out by the tax authorities are unlawful. More than 50 algorithms for selecting reports for control, among other things, are discriminatory and therefore in violation of the law, according to a letter from the Authority...