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What people say about themselves is not that relevant. It's what other people of the same religion say about them what's important:

99,9% of all Christians consider KKK not to be good Christians, if Christians at all.
73% of muslims in the Netherlands consider muslims that join ISIL good muslims, even heroes.

They did remove the image on the original article by now...

Actually the same picture has already been used before for a different article on December 7: http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Politiek/283373/VVD-en-PVV-eisen-tegenprestatie-voor-uitkering.htm

Different author though...

Original article: http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Nederland/288453/Gemeente-wil-aanvragers-uitkering-eerst-thuis-bezoeken.htm

Elsevier editors email: redactie.elsevier@elsevier.nl

Posters above already mention that 95% of Dutch people speak English so I would just send them an email.

``I don't see how the government is lying about these passports by the way.''

They've said the security of the chips is good, they cannot be read from a distance, and the encryption has not been cracked. None of these are true:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/30/dutch_biometric_passport_crack/

That's from 2005. Here's a more recent report, in Dutch: http://www.elsevier.nl/web/nederland/beveiligingschipvanpaspoortengekraakt.htm.

And here is what the government has to say about it, also in Dutch: http://www.minbzk.nl/onderwerpen/persoonsgegevens-en/114876/chip-in-paspoort.

I've read other pages that provide information on reading the distance the chip can be read from; official government publications claiming it's a few cm, and researchers reading the chips from a few meters. I have to go now; if you want, I can look these up later.

http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/tibs or find it at your library.

The International Biometrics Consortium is an organization of individuals, companies, and institutions that concerns itself with all aspects of Biometric technology. Fingerprinting is one of the most talked about, but retinal scans, voice prints, face recognition, behavioral recognition (such as gait or common hours of arrival and departure,) hand geometry, and other measures of "what you are" instead of "what you have" or "what you know." To become a member, you must join the listserv here.

Every November they have an annual Conference, but there are many events throughout the year, throughout the world.

There are many other organizations such as BioAPI that are concerned with aspects of the technology such as multivendor hardware and software support.

I attended the Consortium's 2000 conference at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, USA. I was quite impressed with the state of the technology and the amount of research that has been done in this area, but surprised at the lack of large scale corporate interest. Happy hunting, and please post your experiences!