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    Pointer Season 1 Episode 1 - This police logger violates the privacy of suspects
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    #1 - This police logger violates the privacy of suspects

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    Police logger Jan-Willem goes into the mistake ... again. Despite the instructions for the use of social media by police, there are still people traceable in videos of the Vlogger. And with that he lays private data from citizens on the street. Pointer investigated the traceability of people in videos of police logger Jan-Willem and it shows that the popular agent rebreeds several privacy rules. That is remarkable, because following earlier research, the police proposed guidelines for improving social media posters. Now it appears that after the tightening of the rules in certain 22 cases that are traceable to a person are visible and audible in videos of Jan-Willem. Social media is indispensable in the police. You see it at all arguing: a detection message via a Twitter or Facebook message.

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  2. Pointer Season 1 Episode 2 - Care cowboys Part I. For example, 97 major healthcare companies come to very high profit
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    #2 - Care cowboys Part I. For example, 97 major healthcare companies come to very high profit

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    In collaboration with Reporter Radio and Follow the Money, Pointer reveals that there are several healthcare institutions in the Netherlands that achieve extreme profits. The accounts look suspicious. How is it possible that these businesses earn so much money? Many of those companies are in home care. Is the care that these companies must deliver sufficient or is there the back of people who needed home care earned money?

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  3. Pointer Season 1 Episode 3 - Care cowboys Part II. The directors of these care companies are rich in care money
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    #3 - Care cowboys Part II. The directors of these care companies are rich in care money

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    In June 2019, DataLatform Pointer revealed in collaboration with research site Follow the Money and Reporter Radio that there are care institutions that get extreme profits. After an analysis of the annual figures for 2017, it turned out that 97 large healthcare companies were jointly made for more than fifty million euros in profit. That amounts to more than twenty percent of turnover, while at most three percent are common within mental health care, care for the disabled and home care. These profits may have been unlawfully achieved. The annual accounts of these institutions are rarely checked, allowing shareholders to pay for millions of Euros to care money. These 'care cowboys' would perhaps even ride out huge profits at the expense of supplying care to people who need. In the second broadcast on mega ministers in healthcare, the DataTeam of Pointer once again examines the annual accounts of these types of companies.

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  4. Pointer Season 1 Episode 4 - How a mysterious e-mail leads to online scammers in the Philippines
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    #4 - How a mysterious e-mail leads to online scammers in the Philippines

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    Behind a simple e-mail in the inbox of Pointer appears to be a network of lighting sites, mailbox companies and more than a hundred victims around the world. Via a wirwar to NEP accounts, the track is followed that leads to two Danish cheaters, which abuse people from people.

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  5. Pointer Season 1 Episode 5 - Care cowboys Part III. Municipalities hardly have any view of spending care money
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    #5 - Care cowboys Part III. Municipalities hardly have any view of spending care money

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    Almost a hundred care companies make structurally high profit in the healthcare sector. The DataTeam of Pointer, together with Reporter Radio and Follow the Money, examines why municipalities pay for tens of millions of euros in care money to these companies within the framework of the Social Support Act. Why do municipalities do not seize as soon as it becomes clear that this money is not spent on good care? Municipalities must ensure that the money intended for elderly and disabled care is used properly. Why do municipalities do business with companies that use the money for other things? And is it maintained?

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  6. Pointer Season 2 Episode 1 - With hundreds of security cameras you can watch unnoticed
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    #6 - With hundreds of security cameras you can watch unnoticed

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  7. Pointer Season 2 Episode 2 - These climate sections sow doubt with the help of the oil industry
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    #7 - These climate sections sow doubt with the help of the oil industry

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    The Clintel Notice Foundation on climate change and climate policy and is regularly cited in debates that go among other things about climate change. For example, reports and articles from Clintel are quoted by Thierry Baudet of Democracy Forum, especially when it comes to how urgently the climate debate is actually. For Clintel, the need is less high than many climate activists claim. Clintel is particularly critical of reporting about the global warming. The foundation is not yet a year yet, but is now one of the largest clubs of climate skepticists. Who is behind Clintel? How can they be on the rise so quickly? And is it true what they say about the state of the climate? Who is behind the lobby of climate seplect?

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  8. Pointer Season 2 Episode 3 - Why there's so much fake news about the coronavirus on social media
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    #8 - Why there's so much fake news about the coronavirus on social media

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    The global outbreak of the coronavirus ensures that our daily news consumption almost only exists with news about COVID-19. Not only through established media we are kept informed, also via social media, reports about the virus are sent and forwarded. And the question is how reliable those messages are. Nowadays, Fake News is hard to distinguish from real news. Pointer went looking for fake news and shows how you can really distinguish from NEP on the basis of journalistic and forensic treasure methods. For example, images on social media that was suggested that people commit suicide because of the virus. These shocking images were bleached. Why are these messages sent? It provides more unrest and fear. Who is behind spreading fake news? Why do they do that? And what can fake news bring about?

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  9. Pointer Season 2 Episode 4 - Death at the border
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    #9 - Death at the border

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    The Turkish President Erdogan suddenly throws open the border with Greece at the end of February. The pressure on Turkey, which would absorb the migrant current, is too large. Support from the EU remains, and therefore Erdogan throws open borders to let the EU experience the pressure. He sets buses to bring migrants to pazarkule, the border crossing between the Turkish Edirne and the Greek chestnuts. With skirmishes on the border between Greece and Turkey, it is getting out of hand. People are injured and there is also a dead person: the Pakistani refugee Mohammed Gulzar. He was hit and died on the spot. Turkey and Greece accuse each other over and over again, deny all allegations and manufacture fake news to make the other black. Greece denies that injuries have fallen and all that someone has been killed, and even puts into embassies to stop every news about the incidents.

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  10. Pointer Season 2 Episode 5 - The 'disappeared' Jewish houses
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    #10 - The 'disappeared' Jewish houses

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    A group of Dutch, shady real estate dealers, real estate agents and entrepreneurs earns considerably during the Second World War to trade in Jewish real estate. Millions were involved with the purchase and sale of real estate of led jews. The real estate was - often for amounts that were far below the applicable market prices - purchased from the German occupier that the houses had expropriated. The transactions were kept by the German occupiers in the so-called Verkaufsbücher. Almost all books have been preserved. They contain the addresses and the names of the original owners, the brokers involved and the war copies, plus selling prices. And so a penetrating image of a criminal real estate circuit creates that gold earned money from expropriated, Jewish real estate. Were municipalities informed? Are they aware of the transactions? And how is the relatives? Are they compensated for expropriating the houses of their family?

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  11. Pointer Season 2 Episode 6 - American lobby in the Netherlands
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    #11 - American lobby in the Netherlands

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    The Transatlantic Christian Council is one of the most influential American lobby clubs. They stand for a conservative Christian ideas: against abortion, against same-sex marriage and for Christian education. In the Netherlands, the battle of Trump may seem like a far-away-bed show for many, but right here has an active co-founded. Henk Jan van Schothorst - Former lobbyist of the SGP - With support from controversial American think tanks, Gouda cheese traders and American ambassador Pete Hoekstra part of this international lobby organization, which aims to stop laws and regulations that the rights related to LGBT people , abortion, euthanasia and equal rights for women. How far does the influence of this lobby club and what role does the American ambassador play in the Netherlands? Pointer dived in the network of this lobby club.

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  12. Pointer Season 2 Episode 7 - Data: Gold mine for politics
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    #12 - Data: Gold mine for politics

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    In the US and also in the Netherlands the elections are at the door. The battle for the voter is loose. And the key to the election victory? Your personal information. Data Driven Campaigning is the most modern way to win the voter's voice. With data techniques, presidential candidates and political parties try to find out as much as possible about you. That way they know how they can best reach you and how they can best take their message to you. Your voice as a voter and your dates are worth gold. But how are those private data collected and is that not very privacy sensitive? How is it deployed in campaigning? How are your own data used to influence your voting behavior?

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  13. Pointer Season 2 Episode 8 - The hunt for online trolls
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    #13 - The hunt for online trolls

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    The American elections are a good reason for Twitter trolls to stir on social media. Trolls spread online misinformation to polarize and disrupted. Dutch trolls also mix and try to influence the American elections. What purpose do they do this with? And who are behind these troll accounts? Pointer dives into the world of the Online Trolls and looking for who these are trolls and what their motives are.

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  14. Pointer Season 2 Episode 9 - The hidden network of conspiracy cherry
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    #14 - The hidden network of conspiracy cherry

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    "Doctors are emergency clock about corona measures," heads the AD at the beginning of July. "So continue damage," the newspaper quotes the doctors. A few days before the news item appears, a group of Medici has put a fire letter online in which they state that there is no evidence for the usefulness of the continuing halevers rule and calls to revoke politicians against the Corona Act. Internist Evelien Peeters and Infectiologist Hannah Visser are designated as the initiators. 'The reason for drawing up this letter is that in recent weeks we noticed that it is difficult to question the policy as a doctor in publicity. If you do that, you quickly get away as a conspiracy. That is certainly not the case, "they say. The two just want an open debate, they indicate. Pointer dived in the network of the letter writers. This shows that behind the action of apparently two concerned doctors arranged a coordinated campaign that is carried out worldwide.

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  15. Pointer Season 3 Episode 1 - Schulden in tijden van corona
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    #15 - Schulden in tijden van corona

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  16. Pointer Season 3 Episode 2 - Floriade 2022: Duurzame droom of financiële nachtmerrie?
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    #16 - Floriade 2022: Duurzame droom of financiële nachtmerrie?

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  17. Pointer Season 3 Episode 3 - Ziek door je werk
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    #17 - Ziek door je werk

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  18. Pointer Season 3 Episode 4 - WhatsAppfraude
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    #18 - WhatsAppfraude

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  19. Pointer Season 3 Episode 5 - Plasticplaag: plastic afval over zee sturen is big business
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    #19 - Plasticplaag: plastic afval over zee sturen is big business

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  20. Pointer Season 3 Episode 6 - Plastic puin in de natuur
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    #20 - Plastic puin in de natuur

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  21. Pointer Season 3 Episode 7 - Gemeentelijke herindeling
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    #21 - Gemeentelijke herindeling

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  22. Pointer Season 3 Episode 8 - Verkeersveiligheid
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    #22 - Verkeersveiligheid

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  23. Pointer Season 3 Episode 9 - De winst van kleine zorgaanbieders
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    #23 - De winst van kleine zorgaanbieders

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  24. Pointer Season 3 Episode 10 - Corona als beroepsziekte
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    #24 - Corona als beroepsziekte

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  25. Pointer Season 3 Episode 11 - Vrouwenquotum
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    #25 - Vrouwenquotum

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Best Episodes Summary

"This police logger violates the privacy of suspects" is the best rated episode of "Pointer". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/11/2019. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Care cowboys Part I. For example, 97 major healthcare companies come to very high profit".