Quote of the Day | 1227
in the Netherlands fear-mongering can be more effectively used by the government to pass oppressive laws. And it has been. Against a backdrop of increasing xenophobia the Dutch are databasing everything that involves moving people, money or bits, to be used against us in various ways. We are at the point now where – without any specific suspicion – a dutch homeowner can get a letter announcing a search of their home in order to “make the city safer”. And whatever bits of surveillance state are missing are being built at breakneck speeds.
I think we can say that when it comes to civil liberties my country is downwardly mobile.
Rop Gonggrijp, Keynote speech at 27C3
[x]#8107 fan maandag 27 december 2010 @ 23:59:59
