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Dick Schoof, the new Dutch prime minister, has banned mobile phones and other devices from the weekly meetings of his cabinet in a move aimed at addressing the possible risk of digital eavesdropping by spies. “The threat of espionage is timeless. Electronic devices, a telephone, iPad, are all little microphones and countries are interested in decision-making also in the Netherlands and you want to prevent that. It’s a very simple measure – all the phones in a safe,” Schoof, a former head of the national intelligence agency, told journalists on Friday. Phones were not banned under Schoof’s pred…