Dutch intelligence services mining more and more data in secret
1 week, 5 days ago

Dutch intelligence services mining more and more data in secret

NL Times  

The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD made more use of their special powers to secretly gather information last year, NOS reports from the Review Committee for the Use of Powers’ annual report. Last year, the TIB received 4,445 requests from the two services, an increase of 30 percent compared to a year earlier. The general intelligence service AIVD and its military counterpart MIVD have to request permission from the TIB every time they want to use their special powers. According to the TIB, this violation is sometimes necessary “to protect national security against terrorism, cyber threats, espionage, criminal undermining, or threats to our economic security.” Last week, the TIB and the other supervisor on the intelligence services, CTIVD, reprimanded the AIVD for going beyond its scope.

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Tapping requests up by 30% as threats from China and Russia grow
1 week, 4 days ago

Tapping requests up by 30% as threats from China and Russia grow

Dutch News  

The intelligence agencies AIVD and MIVD are making more use of their powers to tap phones, install cameras and monitor internet traffic in response to geopolitical threats, the official watchdog has said. The committee that authorises requests to intercept information, the TIB, said it received 4,455 applications from the two agencies last year, a 30% increase on 2023. The committee …

Intelligence service regulators reprimand AIVD for organized crime investigations
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Intelligence service regulators reprimand AIVD for organized crime investigations

NL Times  

The General Intelligence and Security Service does not always stick to the law when investigation organized crime, regulators CTIVD and TIB stated in a letter to the Minister of Interior Affairs and NSC member, Judith Uitermark. With that, the Oversight Committee for the Intelligence and Security Services and the Investigatory Powers Commission feel that AIVD used their clearances “illegally.” In …

Threats to the security of the Netherlands increasingly coming from Russia, China
2 years, 4 months ago

Threats to the security of the Netherlands increasingly coming from Russia, China

NL Times  

The Netherlands is increasingly confronted with threats to national security. A warning about this was issued Monday afternoon by the country’s three intelligence services, the General Intelligence and Security Service, the Military Intelligence and Security Service and the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security. In addition, the Netherlands is still a target of State- In a joint report, the services …

Dutch security services ordered to delete five valuable datasets
2 years, 9 months ago

Dutch security services ordered to delete five valuable datasets

NL Times  

Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD must destroy five large datasets they consider valuable for national security because they broke the rules in storing them. The complaints handling department of regulator CTIVD ordered the datasets destroyed in a ruling published on Wednesday following a complaint by civil rights organization Bits of Freedom, NRC reports. But with the involved five datasets, …

Intelligence services to start large-scale data mining despite negative referendum
2 years, 10 months ago

Intelligence services to start large-scale data mining despite negative referendum

NL Times  

Despite a majority of Netherlands residents voting against a law to allow large-scale data mining in a referendum in 2018, the large-scale tapping of communication via internet cables is technically possible and will soon be used by the Dutch intelligence services. That breaks previous promises made by former responsible Minister Ronald Plasterk, the Volkskrant reports based on information from regulators …

Intelligence service wants to do more against cyber attacks
3 years, 8 months ago

Intelligence service wants to do more against cyber attacks

NL Times  

Erik Akerboom, head of the Netherlands' general intelligence service AIVD, wants to be able to respond "more practically and powerfully" to cyber attacks. The service is now not always able to act quickly, and the threat of cyber attacks is increasing, he said to EenVandaag. "We see a daily stream of cyber incidents, small and large," Akerboom said. From the …

Defense secretly data mining among Dutch since start of Covid crisis: Report
4 years, 4 months ago

Defense secretly data mining among Dutch since start of Covid crisis: Report

NL Times  

Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, the Dutch armed forces secretly collected data about Dutch society on a large-scale. This data was interpreted and disseminated in reports, and shared with at least terrorism coordinator NCTV and the police, NRC reported based on its own research into the land information maneuver center LIMC, a unit set up by Defense in …

Dutch companies try to delay data mining law in court
6 years, 11 months ago

Dutch companies try to delay data mining law in court

NL Times  

A coalition of journalists, lawyers, civil society organizations, and IT- and tech companies is preparing a lawsuit to postpone the implementation of the new law for the Dutch intelligence and security services, NU.nl reports. A majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, is satisfied with the changes made, but there is still division among parliamentarians about …

Dutch intelligence service careless with privacy: supervisory committee
7 years ago

Dutch intelligence service careless with privacy: supervisory committee

NL Times  

Intelligence service AIVD is careless about privacy when sharing information with foreign services in the search for suspected terrorists, concludes the supervisory committee on the Dutch intelligence services CTIVD. The report published on Wednesday focused on the exchange and processing of personal data by the AIVD with the dozens of European countries in the Counter Terrorism Group. The CTIVD identified …

Majority of Dutch plan to vote for Big Data law in referendum: polls
7 years ago

Majority of Dutch plan to vote for Big Data law in referendum: polls

NL Times  

More Dutch plan to vote for a law that will give the Dutch intelligence services more capabilities to eavesdrop on people than plan to vote against. An I&O research poll on March 14th shows that 51 percent of respondents plan to vote for implementing this law, 30 percent will vote against and 19 percent don't know yet. A Peil.nl poll …

Dutch intelligence services placed 3,553 taps last year
7 years ago

Dutch intelligence services placed 3,553 taps last year

NL Times  

The Dutch intelligence services placed 3,553 taps to eavesdrop on people and organizations last year, Ministers Kasja Ollongren of Home Affairs and Ank Bijleveld of Defense reported to parliament on Wednesday. General intelligence and security service AIVD placed the majority of the taps, 3,205. In 2002 the AIVD placed 559 taps, increasing to 1,324 in 2006. "The increased numbers must …

Dutch Hackers Provide Crucial Information on Russian Interference in US Elections
7 years, 2 months ago

Dutch Hackers Provide Crucial Information on Russian Interference in US Elections

Dutch News  

Dutch security service hackers have provided the FBI with crucial information about Russian interference in the US elections. The hackers were able to monitor the work of a Russian hackers group named as Cosy Bear for over two years, enabling them to witness their attacks on the Democratic party, the White House, and the US state department. The FBI is …

Dutch Hackers Provide Crucial Clues to FBI About Russian Interference in US Elections
7 years, 2 months ago

Dutch Hackers Provide Crucial Clues to FBI About Russian Interference in US Elections

Dutch News  

Dutch security service hackers have provided the FBI with crucial information about Russian interference in the US elections. The hackers were able to monitor the work of a Russian hackers group named as Cosy Bear for between one and 2.5 years, both online and via a security camera in the building where they worked. This enabled them to witness them …

Dutch government won't comment on secret services infiltrating Russian hackers
7 years, 2 months ago

Dutch government won't comment on secret services infiltrating Russian hackers

NL Times  

The two Dutch Ministers in charge of intelligence services AIVD and MIVD refused to respond to reports that the two services passed crucial information about Russian hackers influencing the United States presidential elections to the FBI. "I leave the news coverage for what it is", Minster Kasja Ollongren of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations, in charge of general intelligence and …

Dutch intelligence agency stopped 4 terror attacks in the Netherlands
7 years, 2 months ago

Dutch intelligence agency stopped 4 terror attacks in the Netherlands

NL Times  

The Algemene Inlichtingen en Veiligheidsdienst, the Dutch intelligence agency, has prevented 4 terrorist attacks from taking place since 2011. Bertholee regarded these 4 threats as "specific, severe cases", and he mentioned one of them, the arrest of Jaouad A. in Rotterdam. On his opinion "security is more important than privacy", and he gave the Dutch cyber security a 6 out …

Netherlands postpones Big Data law implementation
7 years, 4 months ago

Netherlands postpones Big Data law implementation

NL Times  

The Dutch government is postponing the implementation of the new data mining law for the intelligence and security services. The law gives the Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD the capability to collect, store and analyze large amounts of internet data. On Saturday CDA leader Sybrand Buma said that he expects that the new government will implement the Intelligence and …

Half of Dutch support new data mining law: report
7 years, 5 months ago

Half of Dutch support new data mining law: report

NL Times  

Half of Dutch support the new data mining law for the Dutch intelligence agencies, according to a study by I&O Research, NU.nl reports. The new law gives intelligence agencies AIVD and MIVD more power to collect, store and analyze large amounts of internet traffic. A group of activists recently managed to collect the over 300 thousand signatures necessary to hold …

Dutch senate agrees controversial tapping law
7 years, 8 months ago

Dutch senate agrees controversial tapping law

Dutch News  

The Dutch senate has passed a controversial new tapping law, allowing secret services to collect information on a much larger scale. Although concerns were raised about ‘mass surveillance’ when the law was debated and passed by Dutch MPs in February, all parties had agreed 2002 legislation needed to be updated in the light of the digital revolution. The NOS reports …

Dutch parliament likely to vote in data mining law today
8 years, 1 month ago

Dutch parliament likely to vote in data mining law today

NL Times  

The lower house of Dutch parliament is debating a new data mining law that will give the Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD the power to intercept data streams on large scales. The new law gives the intelligence services the capability to intercept all forms of wire communication, including telephone, internet, email and social media. But data tapping must always …

Russian, Chinese cyber attacks a threat to Dutch democracy: intelligence service
8 years, 1 month ago

Russian, Chinese cyber attacks a threat to Dutch democracy: intelligence service

NL Times  

Dutch intelligence service AIVD is very concerned about increasing cyber attacks on the Netherlands by countriees like Russia, China and Iran, AIVD director Rob Bertholee said in an interview with EenVandaag. On the other hand, they get away with business secrets and economic secrets and thus they affect the economic earning power of the Dutch business community." On Wednesday Minister …

Dutch military intelligence service looking for new cyber specialists
8 years, 2 months ago

Dutch military intelligence service looking for new cyber specialists

NL Times  

The challenge of keeping the Netherlands digitally safe is increasingly growing, according to Onno Eichelsheim, director of Dutch military intelligence service MIVD. "Russia and China perform all kinds of digital espionage attempts, influence operations and cyber attacks.What happened in the United States shows that the Russians are good at using information for political purposes. It is conceivable that the Russians …

Proposed law allows massive data mining by intelligence agencies
8 years, 11 months ago

Proposed law allows massive data mining by intelligence agencies

NL Times  

A new legislative proposal gives the Netherlands' intelligence and security services the ability for eaves dropping on cellphone and internet traffic on a large-scale. Currently the Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD are only allowed to do targeted searches on internet and mobile phone traffic. The main change on the bill is who the security services will need to ask …

Security service caught spying on lawyers 13 times
9 years, 1 month ago

Security service caught spying on lawyers 13 times

NL Times  

Intelligence and security service AIVD unjustly spied on communications between lawyers and clients 13 times between February 2014 and March 2015, according to the annual report by the CTIVD, the committee responsible for supervising the Dutch intelligence and security services, RTL Nieuws reports. In July last year a court in The Hague ruled that the AIVD must stop eavesdropping on …

Watchdog: New law lets gov't spy on "all Dutch people"
9 years, 6 months ago

Watchdog: New law lets gov't spy on "all Dutch people"

NL Times  

The power given to Dutch intelligence agencies to spy on the people of the Netherlands is dangerously imbalanced, The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights stated on Tuesday. In its current form, the law would make it possible for Dutch security services to intercept massive amounts of telecommunications, and to controversially utilize data mining, the group cautioned. “The bill makes it …

Physicist uncovered as Russian spy
9 years, 8 months ago

Physicist uncovered as Russian spy

NL Times  

Cooperation between the Dutch and German intelligence agencies resulted in the identification of a Russian physicist who was spying for the Russian secret service. According to the Volkskrant, Ivan A. was attached to both the German Max Planck Society in Erlangen and the Technical University of Eindhoven. While shadowing a Russian diplomat from Bonn, the German intelligence agency discovered that …

Military police to monitor Dutch sites in terrorism fight
10 years, 1 month ago

Military police to monitor Dutch sites in terrorism fight

NL Times  

The government will deploy more marechaussees because of the increasing terrorism threat, RTL Nieuws reports. The government also announced an investigation into the the budgets of the intelligence and security services, RTL Nieuws reports. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that the General Intelligence and Security Service currently has enough money, but more money will be available if it is needed. …

Dutch security services to be grilled over MH17
10 years, 2 months ago

Dutch security services to be grilled over MH17

NL Times  

A Dutch committee will investigate the performance of the Netherlands intelligence offices prior to the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. Some aviation experts believe believe civilian airspace over eastern Ukraine should have been shutdown as early as May, when a pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian plane, demonstrating the rebels’ longer-range military capabilities. The Dutch Safety Board investigating the …

Dutch intelligence busted for data mining, illegal wiretaps
10 years, 5 months ago

Dutch intelligence busted for data mining, illegal wiretaps

NL Times  

Between September 2012 and August 2013 the General Intelligence and Security Service illegally eavesdropped on people. The CTIVD wants to reveal how many people were wiretapped by the GISS, but Minister Plasterk stopped this. In seven cases the GISS monitored illegal satellite communications, including specific email addresses or phone numbers. In four cases the GISS wiretapped people illegally and in …

The AIVD should be allowed more digitally
11 years, 5 months ago

The AIVD should be allowed more digitally

NL Times  

The AIVD should legally be allowed more room to monitor the Dutch networks. This advocates Ronald Prins, director of the IT security company Fox-it, in response to the news on the digital break-in at the Belgian telecom company Belgacom.The Dutch government can do more to protect the Dutch infrastructure. The AIVD is currently not allowed to scan the internet lines …

Justice minister won't comment on AIVD digital spying claims
11 years, 9 months ago

Justice minister won't comment on AIVD digital spying claims

Dutch News  

Justice minister Ivo Opstelten on Tuesday refused to comment on claims the Dutch security service AIVD works together with the US secret services in collecting information from email and social media traffic. ‘We never comment about alliances with foreign services,’ Opstelten said in reply to MPs questions following reports in the Telegraaf. Dutch security service AIVD has also received information …

Justice minister won't comment on AIVD digital spying claims
11 years, 9 months ago

Justice minister won't comment on AIVD digital spying claims

Dutch News  

Justice minister Ivo Opstelten on Tuesday refused to comment on claims the Dutch security service AIVD works together with the US secret services in collecting information from email and social media traffic. ‘We never comment about alliances with foreign services,’ Opstelten said in reply to MPs questions following reports in the Telegraaf. Dutch security service AIVD has also received information …

Dutch security service has received information via PRISM: Telegraaf
11 years, 9 months ago

Dutch security service has received information via PRISM: Telegraaf

Dutch News  

Dutch security service AIVD has also received information on email and social media traffic via US spy system PRISM, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday. Dutch companies also cooperated with the US authorities’ request for information, the source said, claiming that ‘there are agents ready to deal with requests for information inside companies and institutions.’ ‘There are a couple of those …

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