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A telemarketer refused to keep his webcam on for nine hours a day while working from home and was fired the next day — a Dutch court ruled the demand invaded his privacy and ordered his employer to pay him roughly €75,000Oct 12, 2026
Startups & VC•5m read•21 days ago

A telemarketer refused to keep his webcam on for nine hours a day while working from home and was fired the next day — a Dutch court ruled the demand invaded his privacy and ordered his employer to pay him roughly €75,000

A camera that stayed switched off cost a Florida software company about 75,000 euros. It belonged to a telemarketer working from the small Dutch town of Diessen, employed since January 2019 by Chetu, an American software firm that at the time ran a ...

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Researchers tracked the passwords 154 people used online for an average of 147 days and found them logging into 26 websites with fewer than 10 unique passwords — roughly 60 percent were reused outright or built from pieces of passwords they were already using elsewhereOct 12, 2026
Startups & VC•4m read•21 days ago

Researchers tracked the passwords 154 people used online for an average of 147 days and found them logging into 26 websites with fewer than 10 unique passwords — roughly 60 percent were reused outright or built from pieces of passwords they were already using elsewhere

For about five months, a browser extension sat quietly on the home computers of 154 people and watched them log in. The researchers never saw a password. Everything was hashed on the machine before it went anywhere, leaving them with the shape of ea...

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At 19, an Estonian borrowed €5,000 from his family and recruited Tallinn taxi drivers face-to-face for an app he had built because the city’s taxis were unreliable; twelve years later the company took €2.27 billion in revenue in more than 50 countries and posted its first annual profit — €920,000, a margin of four hundredths of one percentOct 12, 2026
Startups & VC•6m read•21 days ago

At 19, an Estonian borrowed €5,000 from his family and recruited Tallinn taxi drivers face-to-face for an app he had built because the city’s taxis were unreliable; twelve years later the company took €2.27 billion in revenue in more than 50 countries and posted its first annual profit — €920,000, a margin of four hundredths of one percent

Markus Villig was 19 in 2013, fresh out of high school in Tallinn, and frustrated with how hard it was to get a reliable taxi in his own city. He borrowed €5,000 from his family to build a first version of an app, then did the unglamorous part himsel...

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A country of fewer than 1.4 million people has produced ten billion-dollar startups — about 7 for every million residents, more than three times the US rate — and the first of them was a voice-call app a handful of engineers built in Tallinn in 2003.Oct 12, 2026
Startups & VC•6m read•21 days ago

A country of fewer than 1.4 million people has produced ten billion-dollar startups — about 7 for every million residents, more than three times the US rate — and the first of them was a voice-call app a handful of engineers built in Tallinn in 2003.

Correction, 1 October 2026: The original excerpt called Estonia the world leader, although the cited per-capita tally places it second behind Liechtenstein. The article also misstated the Tiger Leap school-internet rollout; first-party history says a...

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