Dutch Government: Number of Internet Taps Has Quintupled In One Year 49
vikingpower writes "A Dutch newspaper has a digital version of the letter Mr. Opstelten, Secretary of Justice and Security, sent to Dutch Parliament (PDF in Dutch), in which he quietly admits to 56,825 phone taps (a 3% rise in one year) and to 16,676 internet taps in 2012, a 400% rise, or a fivefold increase, in one year. An older report already exposed the Netherlands as one of the biggest wiretappers in the western world. Slate also knew, back in 2006, that Europeans actually love wiretapping and internet tapping. In the Netherlands, a country with a population of only 16 million, the practice has risen to the level of a staggering 1 in 1,000 phones being tapped."
Re:BUT THEN THEY ARE TOO STONED TO USE ANY OF IT ! (Score:2, Funny)
What does a stoner government do with anything for that matter !!
"Duuuuude... Citizen 432B61 just ordered some pizzas! We gotta legislate ourselves some of that action! But first, pass the ClogginBong this way..."
OK, so I admit I know precisely dick about Dutch government, but I can't resist an opportunity to make fun of stoners.