I recently read a book in which data collection played a major role. The bottom line? All the data you can think of about your person is stored somewhere. Whether with governments, with companies or both.
Much of your data is collected and stored by so-called data miners. Initially, most people think of commercial collectors such as Google, FB, YouTube and more from similar above-the-law companies. They collect data for financial gain by selling it on. They do that via the internet. A very simple form is the advertisements that you see appearing on a website. You have been looking at a new car of brand X and suddenly advertisements of brand X appear on other sites that you visit. The cookies in your internet browser take care of this. FB even tried the biometric features of your face to steal.
But the cameras that are installed in almost all supermarkets and hardware stores also collect your data. That sign that the cameras are there for 'your and our safety' is sheer nonsense. These cameras are there to analyze your buying behavior based on your movement pattern. How often you come and what you buy is also neatly stored when you pay digitally or have a customer card. The Dutch Data Protection Authority put a stop to the plans in 2021 from supermarkets automatically identify you through facial recognition.
Modern cars are no more than driving computers on four wheels. Your entire driving behavior is saved. How often you use the car, when you use the car, how many trips of x kilometers, how fast you drive, how often you accelerate, everything is registered. Insurers sometimes require (!) that a lease car is equipped with registration equipment with GPS with which they can be able to read driving behaviour to determine the amount of the premium.
These are just a few examples of how your data is collected. Whether you think that's all okay, or whether your privacy is not harmed by it, all those companies are a major concern. It often states in the small print of such a multinational that by using the product or entering the business, you automatically agree to such private practices.
But not only multinationals can benefit from it. The State of DDR Netherlands, inspired by a deep-rooted distrust of the citizen, is also in no way inferior.
Data collection by the State of DDR Netherlands
You may also remember the riot from 2019 about collecting data from WhatsApp. The state of DDR Netherlands wanted access to data collected by the commercial data miners. Apple was also pressured by the government to share data they have about Mac users with them. That whole story seemed to fade into oblivion.
But such large-scale espionage capabilities must of course be added to the already overwhelming arsenal of the totalitarian police state of DDR Netherlands. The minister Yesilgöz of Justice and Security made this known in response to parliamentary questions. The plan leaked through a vacancy of that ministry and Regiem Rutte was asked what the fork was. Well, they find it annoying that all kinds of chat services such as Telegram and Signal have no legal obligation to release the digital encryption on the message traffic. The minister is incensed 'because there are no powers and appropriate legal safeguards to determine the seriousness of criminal offenses or threats'. And these words come from a member of a cabinet whose leaders can be labeled as criminals by all standards, except the Dutch criminal law standards.
Of course we see the usual reflex on the part of the State to justify all that spying. For example, preventing terrorism. That would be putting the hand in their own bosom, I would think given the terror they exercised in the past two years. That fact aside, the threat of terrorism is grossly exaggerated. Among 2000 in 2018 toy died such a little one 1800 Europeans in terrorist attacks both inside and outside Europe combined† By comparison, in 2020 some 18.900 people were killed in traffic in the EU. In short, ten times more EU road casualties in one year than EU terrorism casualties in 18 years worldwide. Worrying about the threat of terrorist attacks is sheer nonsense. Or are you afraid of not coming home every time you participate in traffic? But yes, the hyped reporting is frightening. That suits the State of DDR Netherlands and the good community still believes it. And fear is the killer of common sense, as you know. However, in fact the argument of terrorist threat is a fallacy and is completely disproportionate to the actual risk.
Reducing (serious) crime is also one of the reasons put forward by the State. Let's hope that white-collar crime detection is also one of the reasons for all that spying. Banks have offered more faulty products than one can imagine. Think of the usury policies (value in the Netherlands 100 billion) and the investment mortgages to name two. But who knows, the regime may also spy in its own circles and it will become clear how five billion euros could 'disappear' from VWS under the inspiring leadership of Hugo de J.. You will understand that it is pre-eminently not about this kind of criminal behavior but about the possible brine sins of the ordinary citizen.
Unfortunately, all this data collection does not lead to an increase in the percentage of crimes solved. In 2018 this was slightly higher than 25%. According to the police themselves. The police thought they were rich. When a repeat offender (e.g. shoplifting or burglary) is caught, they also include unresolved shoplifting/burglary in that area for convenience. That's good for the stats, isn't it? Others sources are talking about a solution percentage of 20%. But even that figure is extremely flattering because a crime is considered solved as a suspect has been in the picture. That is completely different from actually finding someone guilty! Well, with numbers you can prove everything as is known.
Despite the fact that hard data proves that all this data collection contributes nothing, whatsoever to the effectiveness of the Polizei against (serious) criminals, this argument was casually used to tow law (Intelligence and Security Services Act 2017) to push through. Who else but Rutte and his accomplices were responsible for this. There was a lot of criticism and the referendum was negative, but with some rumbling in the margins, the regime in the making naturally passed the law. More recently, in 2020, the armed forces gathered through yet another subversive club, the LIMC, without formal authority, surreptitiously and on a large scale about ordinary people who are sick of the machinations of Rutte and his cronies. Think of groups such as the Yellow Vests, Virus Truth, the Other Newspaper, etc., etc. The fact that the LIMC had absolutely no authority to do so is of course irrelevant in a totalitarian dictatorship.
What that ultimately leads to is that we get Chinese conditions. Citizens are structurally monitored everywhere there via their telephone, number plate recognition and facial recognition. When committing the slightest violation, they are automatically fined on the mat; Thou Shalt Obey. Good or bad! Ultimately, it's about power. Power that is misused to enslave the people and exercise total control over everything and everyone. The State of DDR Netherlands; little china town.
Annoying to read (further)
Many people say that they nothing to hide to have. How naive can you be? Just ask such a person what he earns and how much he has in the bank. You won't get an answer to that. Weird right?
The list you see is annoying to read. Annoying in two respects. The list is 'rather' long despite it being considerably shortened… And secondly, it is quite shocking to see to what extent Big Brother, ie the State of DDR Netherlands, is watching you, analyzing you, looking at you under their microscope lays.
Anonymous faces who can never be held accountable or punished for misuse of their powers manage your data and we have to trust that this data is not misused. Assume they are being abused. History proves it.
I wonder if the I-have-nothing-to-hide-naives will also be shocked by the list below.
Deep-rooted distrust
So, do you like snow peas? Literally all your activities from the moment you came into the world until you go to your grave, are registered, stored, analyzed and used by the State of DDR Netherlands for reasons they do not wish to disclose.
And if you think this is bullshit, alas, it isn't. In fact, Rutte and his companions are working on making a law that is in the corridors SuperSyria is called. This is the successor of the law of Syria† The latter law was dismissed by the judge after Privacy First filed a lawsuit against that law. According to the judge, Syria violated the Constitution and has no place in our legal system. But as we have seen before, the State of DDR Netherlands is not concerned about court decisions. In fact, in the run-up to SyRI, there was plenty of experimentation with personal data of citizens to test the predictive algorithm. The State DDR Netherlands, controlled by politicians and apparatchik, 'just' does what one feels like. Punishable? So what? The police don't come to investigate and the judge has no sword force in the sense that he has an arrest team that he can send to suspects working in the highest governmental circles. In addition, the Pikmeer judgments form an ultimate safe house for politicians and apparatchik to be able to ignore everything from a criminal point of view.
In short, the State DDR Netherlands not only considers itself to be above the law, but has been raised above the law by the judge (!) . The SuperSyri Act is based on prediction software (algorithm) and the data that the regime has collected about you. This prediction software will determine whether you are a potential fraudster or undeclared worker, your tendency towards whistleblower behaviour, whether your profile points to 'creative' handling of your tax return, you have sympathy for groups that oppose the State of DDR Netherlands and so on. Literally any potential threat, real or one conceived by a whining politician or official who wants to get involved in politics, can be programmed and unleashed on you. You are suspicious in advance. That is a complete reversal of the legal principle that you are not suspected until there is an actual factual reason to suspect you of a criminal offence. The Syrian law did the same, but only on social legislation and benefits. This led to the allowance affair under Rutte's inspiring leadership, including a cover-up led and orchestrated from the highest government circles.
With 5G, the possibilities for data collection are significantly expanded. The State of DDR Canadians announced that they had 89% of the pricked have systematically followed via various track and trace systems during the corona hoax. Already. Without 5G.
Flags
When you look at what the State of DDR Netherlands collects about everyone, it is more than likely that everyone who has resisted the corona terror in one way or another has been flagged. Just like the farmers who stubbornly resist. Or the citizens who oppose the soot-sweeping madness or actively oppose the terror of the BLM movement or speak disdainfully about the gender debate. All suspicious because not politically correct so potential threat.
The State of DDR Netherlands will of course deny that flags and these violations of our fundamental fundamental rights on the assembly line with a straight face from high and low: 'We don't do that. We are honest and you can trust us because we are the State after all.' We all know what that's worth. Certainly viewed in the light that parliament (2e in 1. e Chamber) are only voting cattle that vote as the party bosses instruct them.
The article About cadaver discipline and failing control by the parliament describes how the monitoring of fundamental fundamental rights of citizens is arranged. That task rests with the legislature; the government and the 2e in 1. e Room. But that legislature is completely controlled and manipulated by the government and the party bosses. It is the butcher who inspects his own meat.
Is that populist talk? Judge yourself
In the period 2013-2016, 10.000 laws, motions and amendments went through the legislative mill. This data comes from data engraver, a company specializing in data collection. Given all the recessions of the Houses, there are at most 200 working days a year left for our parliamentarians to deal with all those 10.000 laws, motions and amendments and to check them for quality and constitutionality. This means that both Houses have to ask themselves more than 16 times a day (!) whether that law, motion or amendment affects a fundamental fundamental right. In addition, they have a duty to investigate this thoroughly.
And of course that doesn't happen or lousy at best to put it gently. They are hammer pieces that are driven through the assembly line. Tjeenk Willink, former chairman of the Council of State advisory board that advises the legislator on the quality of legislation, has expressed his concerns about this on several occasions. It doesn't get much closer to the fire, I think.
“The privacy and freedom of our citizens are being curtailed by sometimes imperceptible steps. Each individual step may be insignificant, but from the whole emerges a society such as we have never seen before; a society in which the government is allowed to invade the secret regions of one's life.” William O'Douglas, United States Supreme Court Judge.
And it is no different in our police state DDR Netherlands.
I wish you freedom and the wisdom to handle it carefully.
Karel Nuks
