The 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 pe

The 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.