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Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children

Posted by samzenpus on from the we've-always-been-at-war-with-eurasia dept.

Del writes "The Dutch government plans to open an electronic file on every child at birth as a tool to spot and protect the troubled kids of the future. All citizens will be tracked from cradle to grave in a single database - including health, education, family and police records."

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  1. Re:I wish this was a joke by Xarius · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Also, gifted children often have behavioral problerms which can not be easily diagnosed for what they are.

    Who cares if they are gifted or not? A behavioural problem is a behavioural problem, and no-one cares how talented an artist or accurate a programmer the kid is, if he's a trouble maker or not is the issue at hand here.

    There shouldn't be special exceptions for geniuses and retards, trouble is trouble.

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    C17H21NO4
  2. Even here Bush sucks by beforewisdom · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    America has been trumped again, just when we thought we were number 1.

    We thought we were the tops in pissing on the concepts of freedom and privacy. After all, we have George Bush and the Patriot Act.

    The Dutch have trumped us. Turns out the Bush administration is not even the best at sucking.

    I now understand the slogan "vote for cthlulus, why settle for the lesser of two evils?"