Politicians up in arms over doxing site with data of 200 Dutch kids
Parliamentarians want the government to take down websites that share children’s personal data. Earlier this week, a doxing site containing the addresses, phone numbers, and sometimes even nude photos of at least 200 Dutch children surfaced.
The site contained data of thousands of Dutch people, including around 200 children. The data is used to intimidate and extort victims, who have to pay up to $400 before the administrators will delete their “profiles,” RTL Nieuws discovered.
Doxing - sharing people’s personal data online - has been a criminal offense in the Netherlands since 2024. Despite this, the authorities have been unable to take this website offline.
A broad parliamentary majority, including D66, GroenLinks-PvdA, VVD, and JA21, is demanding stricter action. GroenLinks-PvdA MP Barbara Kathmann suggested establishing a new supervisory body tasked with deleting personal data as quickly as possible. “Every second your data is online, you could become a victim again,” she told RTL Nieuws. “Deleting it must be the number one priority.”
VVD MP Ingrid Michon-Derkzen called the doxing site “too disgusting for words.” She suggested that the authorities tackle companies that host these kinds of sites online. “As host, you have a responsibility to ensure that no criminal offenses are committed via your server,” she said. “If you fail to intervene, you are partly responsible.”
The upcoming Jetten I Cabinet’s coalition agreement includes plans to take criminal content offline within an hour, as is currently the case for possible terrorist content. It is unclear how they plan to put this into practice.
