“Opstelten and Tax and customs administration was nominated for Big Brother Award”

The Tax and customs administration and minister Ivo Opstelten of Security and Justice, are nominated for a Big Brother Award, a prize for the largest privacyschenders. The public can now vote on the ‘winner’, from mid-december to be announced.

Minister Opstelten is for the third time nominated for the “prize”, which is organized by burgerrechtenorganisatie Bit of Freedom. The minister has his nomination due in part to maintaining the hold, despite the fact that the European Court of Justice draws a line through. Also plans for the police computers to hacking, and the storage of license plate data and location data, the minister charged.

Collegaminister Lodewijk Asscher of Social Affairs, himself once a jury member of the Big Brother Awards, is also nominated, due to a law that the Tax fraud late detection with data mining: searching large volumes of data for patterns. More information about pensions, debt, benefits, permits, health insurances, be searched looking for fraud. Privacyactivisten find that citizens in advance are treated as criminals.

Finally, the Tax and customs administration was nominated, because of its ‘almost unlimited appetite for information about Dutch citizens’, says Bits of Freedom. “Then, for example, to number plate data that the Tax authority requests for parkeerbeheerders,” said Tim Toornvliet of Bits of Freedom. Also the scanning of number plates to privérijders in lease cars to detect the service will be charged.

The nominations are done by the public, that later on Wednesday, you can start voting on the winner. On 16 december, the prizes will be awarded in the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam. Previously won, among others, the national police AGENCY, Facebook, the Irs, and Trans Link Systems an Award.