I'm dutch and i'll shock you even more:)
1. There are parts in Mexico where people don't even lock there doors, coz' there's nothing to steel! What I mean to say is: what's wrong with seeing people eat? Do you go to a restaurant with cubicles, so you dont see anyone else ??? Moreover, we dutch people do regard looking into the open windows as an invasion of privacy. (shocking, ey?) An average dutch person wouldn't dare to look inside... I now this is strange for foreingers, and in a way they have a point, but that's dutch society; live with it.
2. The "frequent customer" point is right, and the public is told about the potential problems several times whenever there is a new card out, so most people don't care. (I do though). And it is very simple to fake your identity with these things, just provide a fake, or slightly different name, and you always know where some firm got the info about you. (I knew someone who had a second credit-card with only the female version of his first name, claiming it to be his wife's credit card!)
3. The "trash-policy" is different per municipality, I have experience with 2 weeks delay between an offence (an old couch standing in front of my house) and a warning. But there are also cities where they don't collect your trash if it is in the wrong type(colour) of bag...
Personnally, I have my doubts about the "safe" because of safety, it is never impossible to crack a system, so decentralized information storage is the best.The prize we have to pay is that it is harder to get the info, even if you are a "good guy". That's a price i'm willing to pay.
PS. If anyone wants to now more about dutch people/society, read:"Xenofobians guide to the Dutch". I did, and it really teaches you a lot (even dutch people can learn from it).
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I'm dutch and i'll shock you even more :)
1. There are parts in Mexico where people don't even lock there doors, coz' there's nothing to steel! What I mean to say is: what's wrong with seeing people eat? Do you go to a restaurant with cubicles, so you dont see anyone else ??? Moreover, we dutch people do regard looking into the open windows as an invasion of privacy. (shocking, ey?) An average dutch person wouldn't dare to look inside... I now this is strange for foreingers, and in a way they have a point, but that's dutch society; live with it.
2. The "frequent customer" point is right, and the public is told about the potential problems several times whenever there is a new card out, so most people don't care. (I do though). And it is very simple to fake your identity with these things, just provide a fake, or slightly different name, and you always know where some firm got the info about you. (I knew someone who had a second credit-card with only the female version of his first name, claiming it to be his wife's credit card!)
3. The "trash-policy" is different per municipality, I have experience with 2 weeks delay between an offence (an old couch standing in front of my house) and a warning. But there are also cities where they don't collect your trash if it is in the wrong type(colour) of bag...
Personnally, I have my doubts about the "safe" because of safety, it is never impossible to crack a system, so decentralized information storage is the best.The prize we have to pay is that it is harder to get the info, even if you are a "good guy". That's a price i'm willing to pay.
PS. If anyone wants to now more about dutch people/society, read:"Xenofobians guide to the Dutch". I did, and it really teaches you a lot (even dutch people can learn from it).
then why is Europe turning more and more into a second America?? (not that I like that...)