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Re:Netherlands To Tax Drivers By the Kilometer by jmostert2 on Saturday November 14, 2009 @04:22PM (#942170)
The Dutch government is batting 10 for 10 when it comes to pushing through legislation that mocks the idea of privacy openly. Another stellar idea they had: gather fingerprints for every single person in the country and store them in a central database. I know it sounds like a bad joke, but it's not (http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/09/fingerprints_i...). The law was passed without any problem, and only now privacy groups are fighting back.

It's scary when your government is so obviously looking out for itself, rather than you, and failing to even see the difference. After all, what's good for the government is good for the people, eh?

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Re:Netherlands To Tax Drivers By the Kilometer by Keyframe on Saturday November 14, 2009 @05:56PM (#942275)
Honest question, can you or someone explain to me why is fingerprinting everyone bad? And if so, how does it weigh against benefits that gives to effectives of police? Where I live we all have unique citizen no.'s and fingerprinting is mandatory when issuing an ID card (also mandatory) for I believe 60 years already, and no problem whatsoever.
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Re:Netherlands To Tax Drivers By the Kilometer by eru on Saturday November 14, 2009 @06:20PM (#942312)
Where?
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Re:Netherlands To Tax Drivers By the Kilometer by smokey_the_bear on Saturday November 14, 2009 @07:15PM (#942377)
California also requires a fingerprint to get a driver's license
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Re:Netherlands To Tax Drivers By the Kilometer by Keyframe on Saturday November 14, 2009 @06:25PM (#942321)
Croatia, and before that ex Yugoslavia.
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Re:Netherlands To Tax Drivers By the Kilometer by jacquesm on Saturday November 14, 2009 @04:49PM (#942193)
I've already decided to literally give them the finger when the time comes to renew my passport.
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Re:Netherlands To Tax Drivers By the Kilometer by barredo on Saturday November 14, 2009 @06:15PM (#942301)
This it's been done with every newborn in a few European states for a few years
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