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I'm a little surprised by this, and skeptical of your claims. The Dutch have one of the strongest advocacies in the world for privacy. This is evidenced by many
by hellofunk 10y ago
I'm a little surprised by this, and skeptical of your claims. The Dutch have one of the strongest advocacies in the world for privacy. This is evidenced by many policies, some seemingly trivial, others not, such as:
1) All ISPs are supposed to delete all logs of customers within 6 months.
2) All websites that deposit a cookie on your machine are required by law to require user consent before doing so (which is why so many American websites become a bit different when browsing them from the Netherlands -- all those popups requesting consent).
While I know the Dutch basically invented the wire tap decades ago, and I have no reason to believe they don't have an advanced spy mechanism in their government, your claims seem to go much further than reason, and feel a bit tabloid to me. You need to provide some concrete evidence about this.
- phicoh 10y agoThe claims are true as far as I know. The police did get (or try to get) data from TomTom. In addition the tax office got data that was collected to check if people pay for parking. There are license plate scanners in lots of places. The total number of taps is mostly undisclosed. The police routinely tap conversations between suspects and lawyers. Those are supposed to be deleted but sometimes end up in a file anyhow. There are limits on what the police can do, but by and large there are only very vague limits on what intelligence agencies can collect. So it is safest to assume that all information that is collected in digital form is available to the government in one way or another and only occasionally are there enough protests that some data is not used anymore (such the tax office using information related to parking) Note, the government has no problem restricting what companies can do with data as long as gets what it needs.