The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets has shot down the plans of media companies RTL and Talpa to merge. According to the ACM, the acquisition will create “an excessively powerful party in the commercial media landscape.” Talpa and RTL Nederland announced their merger plans in June 2021. The move would put TV channels RTL 4, RTL 5, RTL 7, …
The government wants to change the Netherlands' telecom law to make it easier for the Dutch authority on consumers and markets ACM to tackle the "growing problem" of phishing scams via SMS, a spokesperson for State Secretary Mona Keijzer of Economic Affairs confirmed to NU.nl after a report in RTL Nieuws. Phishing via SMS involves messages made to look like …
