On Saturday 26 May 2001 10:04 am, Tim May wrote:
> At 9:12 AM -0700 5/26/01, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> >Dutch discover that once you give bits to someone, you don't own/control
> > them:
> >
> >http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/7691/1.html
> >...
> >Dutch police can get easier access to personal information of clients
> >stored in company's databases. All the information stored by companies
> >will be available to the police, proposes the commission Mevis in a
> >report launched at Monday last week. The minister of Justice said he
> >would adopt the proposals in new legislation.
>
> But...but....but...but they have the best privacy laws in the world!
> How can this happen?
>
All privacy laws are written from the viewpoint that the state is an
exception to the rule.
They provide rules on "privacy", but always include loopholes for
"enforcement of the law", whatever that may entail. (You get privacy from
everyone BUT them.)
Hiding from the law is always a crime in their eyes.
