[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_registration#Netherlands
Please re-read what I wrote and consider that I might have the best intentions to explore a discussion with HN. Note also that I discussed the nature of securing the data and not its compilation.
Note that IMO several European countries forfeit some freedoms that I consider valuable and critical for democracy. IMO it is your right to observe the world as it is and note what you observe. Yes, I understand that this right conflicts with privacy and find it an extremely unfortunate consequence, especially given the emerging power of AI. However I think that it's also possible find people culpable for evil intent of a compilation, though difficult to prove.
So yes it went Godwin quickly, but it is the painful truth.
Note, this is an invitation to enlighten me, not a firm belief on my part.
Yeah yeah, that'snot what you are about, but citing your own comfy idealism to avoid dealing with unpleasant realities is exactly the mechanism that political bad actors seek to exploit.
That file will tell me when you voted, if it is a primary which party ballot you pulled, and if you voted in person, absentee, or early in person.
> (1) ... (v)
> Any election official in the State, including any local election official, may obtain immediate electronic access to the information contained in the computerized list.
> (3) Technological security of computerized list
> The appropriate State or local official shall provide adequate technological security measures to prevent the unauthorized access to the computerized list established under this section
Rest assured the government has much better data on everyone already.
Needless to say, our countries have different ideas about which freedoms can and cannot be sacrified.
Using public data to guess at someone's race isn't, out of context, illegal. It is in some situations, but not this one.
If we didn't have freedom of speech, we'd be just like Russia. The opposition is demonized at best, snuffed out of existence at worst.
>The mere thought of compiling such information here would lead to some hefty jail time these days.
No, not in the United States it wouldn't. Not only is it not illegal, it's standard practice by marking companies, data brokers, and others.
I would personally be very disturbed and angry if data like that about me would exist, let alone leak to the internet. No matter who has it, that data should not exist. Do people in the US really not feel that way?
https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/dem/watify/selli...
Not exactly "my country", but it's implied.
I try to pick my sides based on what seems right, not based on who else picks that side.
(I do not have a side in this particular fight.)
I look at the picker of sides and their motives to determine the consequences of picking a side. I tend to favor protection of people as a whole.
Taken literally, this suggests that you can't work out the consequences without looking at the supporters. If that's what you mean, I have to say it seems weird to me.
Taken less literally: if you think the consequences of one side winning include "people get harmed", you can just say that. You can point at the consequences instead of the supporters.
Plus bad actors are quite good at sounding very good in the abstract while showing their true colors in their actions.
Imagine if there existed similar databases then. Would you hire someone if you knew they were firmly pro-segregation at age 20-something in 1950-something?
Which nation, exactly?
Imagine if there existed similar databases then. Would you hire someone if you knew they were firmly pro-segregation at age 20-something in 1950-something?
Probably not, not. I would certainly probe very carefully to see whether they had abandoned such a stance, since many aspects of personality and and political attitude are formed early in life. If you go back and look at documentary footage from around the time schools were integrated, in the 50s, you can see many youngish people protesting that and waving placards with swastikas and so forth on them (this less than 2 decades after the Nazis were defeated in WW2). A lot of those people held on to those ideas and passed them onto their kids.