Articles by Alex de Joode (Senior Regulatory Counsel)

Law Enforcement Transparency Report 2014: July 1 – December 31

This is the third installment of Leaseweb’s bi-annually Law Enforcement Transparency Report. It shows the number of demands we received in the prior six months. The figures below are for the period of July 1st – December 31st, 2013. Leaseweb believes that clients and other stakeholders deserve a clear articulation of Leaseweb’s obligations and responsibilities to […]

Law Enforcement Transparency Report 2013: January 1 – June 30

Leaseweb supports the idea of an open and safe Internet. As one of the world’s largest hosting and IT infrastructure companies, with approximately 3-4 % of all Internet traffic generated by Leaseweb customers, we believe that transparency on the issues we face and how we address those issues is very important. Therefore we are unveiling […]

Leaseweb: Second statement on former client MegaUpload

Last week Kim Dotcom tweeted some statements claiming Leaseweb B.V. wiped data from 630 dedicated servers leased to former storage service client MegaUpload. Today we received a message from a TorrentFreak.com journalist stating MegaUpload’s legal team had approached them showing an email that would contradict Leaseweb B.V.’s version of the MegaUpload story. The legal team of MegaUpload says […]

Leaseweb first hosting provider worldwide to launch Law Enforcement Transparency Report

Leaseweb supports the idea of an open and safe internet. As one of the world’s largest hosting and IT infrastructure companies, with approximately 3-4 % of all internet traffic generated by Leaseweb customers, we believe that transparency on the issues we face and how we address those issues is very important. Therefore, as the first […]

Net Neutrality Legally Defined in the Netherlands

If it is up to the Dutch Minister of Economics, Maxime Verhagen, net neutrality will be legally adopted in the Netherlands. This was stated  in the Dutch Parliament during a debate yesterday regarding a new telecommunications law where the “net neutrality” amendment was embraced by most political parties. The amendment requires Internet providers and telecom […]

Leaseweb is a secure place

Recently, I had the pleasure of hosting the administrator of the site Abuse.ch, the leading Zeus tracker site. Abuse.ch is one of a number of sites Leaseweb supports under its Community Outreach Project to make the internet a safer and better place. Leaseweb works with many not-for-profit organizations that monitor the web for malicious activity, […]

Leaseweb offers free web hosting to fight cybercrime

In its bid to make the internet safer for all users, Leaseweb has launched a Community Outreach Project offering free servers and bandwidth in support of organizations that monitor, identify and combat the sources of spam and cybercrime. As part of this program we have initially selected a number of organizations to benefit from this […]