p2pnet - rss feed: Dutch gov’ment citizen tracking
p2p news / p2pnet:- On January 1, 2007, the Netherlands government will start tracking every Dutch citizen “from cradle to grave in a single database, opening a personal electronic dossier for every child at birth with health and family data, and eventually adding school and police records,” says Wired News.
“As a privacy safeguard, no single person will be able to access someone’s entire file,” and contributing agencies will maintain their own files.
Organizations can, however, raise "red flags" in dossiers to “caution” other agencies of potential problems with children, ministry spokesman Jan Brouwer is quoted as saying.
Until now, schools and police have been unable to communicate with each other about truancy records and criminality, which are often linked, Wired adds.
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Wired News - Dutch Treat: Personal Database, September 15, 2005
September 16th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
1984! - scary shit!
September 16th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
sounds like a pilot program for the rest of the world…. very scary!
September 17th, 2005 at 4:42 am
But why are they doing this? What benefit does the dutch govt think it’s going to get out of this?
I’m sure we’ll see headlines like “Date: Jan 2, 2007 Dutch database hacked! Everybody’s details stolen!”
Or like the UK tax office, they’ll “lose” ppl’s records completely. Also if all the data is in one place, you only need to press the “del” key once. Sure they said that agencies would keep their own files, but that introduces issues with some files being updated and others not being updated. Which file is right?
I can’t wait to see how long it is before the head of the dutch govt is told they’re not who they claim they are, the files say they’re someone else. Someone with a criminal record yet.
September 17th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
Yes! And phase two might require an identifier chip at birth.