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In a judgment on preliminary relief proceedings on 17 April 2015, the District Court of Amsterdam rejected a privacy claim over the broadcast of a secret recording being. The plaintiff had received an area ban for the living area of his ex-girlfriend. The woman also pressed charges against him for stalking her and in the meantime contacted a broadcaster that airs a programme about stalking. On 12 April 2015, the broadcaster announced that within a week they would devote attention to the situation of the woman. The broadcast would show secret recordings of the plaintiff looking over the woman’s...

On 11 March 2015, the District Court of Amsterdam granted a “right to be de-listed” claim against the owner of online archives. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant should be ordered to ensure that news articles in its online news archives would no longer be listed in Google search results displayed following searches made on the basis of the plaintiff’s name. The case involved a businessman against Erdee Media, a Dutch Christian media company that publishes a reformational newspaper and two online archives containing articles from several Christian publications. In 2005, the newspaper published...

On 11 of March 2015, the new Cookie Act came into effect in the Netherlands, amending Article 11.7a of the Dutch Telecommunications act (Telecommunicatiewet) (see IRIS 2014-10/28 and IRIS 2012-7/32). The act governs access to and storage of information on a terminal of an end-user via an electronic communications network. The new Cookie Act has interesting implications for the consent requirement regarding certain types of cookies that can be deemed non-privacy invasive. The previous law already exempted functional cookies, which are technically indispensable in order to provide a requested service...

The Dutch Media Authority (Commissariaat voor de Media - CvdM), imposed a EUR 150 000 fine on NTR, an independent Dutch public service broadcaster. Each year, on the evening of 5 December, Dutch families celebrate the birthday of Saint Nicholas (Sinterklaas) with the giving of gifts. And each year, in the weeks before the festive evening, NTR airs a daily fictional news show called “Het Sinterklaasjournaal.” The show is meant for children under the age of twelve. In 2013, the broadcaster also produced and distributed wrapping paper with a Sinterklaas theme. According to the Media Authority, NTR...

On 5 February 2015, the District Court of Amsterdam partly upheld a complaint against the Dutch public broadcaster Avrotros. The proceedings had been initiated following the 11 November 2014 episode of the Dutch television show “Opgelicht” (“Swindled”), in which attention was paid to a large scale insolvency fraud allegedly committed by the plaintiff and the company for which he worked. During the episode concerned, the plaintiff’s name was mentioned, an image of his driver’s licence was shown and words of an accusing nature were used. As an immediate consequence, the plaintiff started preliminary...