Well, it was the country that banned traffic cameras doing average speed check on longer stretches, because it was an unreasonable indiscriminate privacy intrusion, storing the number plate information of all passing cars, with a potential for abuse.

Now the Dutch tax services just went ahead, broke the law, stored and analyzed the number plate information of millions of drivers to try to determine if they were using their company car more than allowed for private use. For more or less zero gains. And no retribution when found out.

And by the way, no, personal, non-commercial websites are absolutely not required to have the user's full name and address on them. Link:

https://www.bmuv.de/themen/verbraucherschutz/digitaler-verbr...