Dutch Plan To Implement Tracking Database for All Citizens
the article wrote:
The Dutch government will begin tracking every citizen from cradle to grave in a single database, opening a personal electronic dossier for every child at birth with health and family data, and eventually adding school and police records.
The Health Ministry says the new database will begin Jan. 1, 2007
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But organizations can raise "red flags" in the dossier to caution other agencies of potential problems with children, said ministry spokesman Jan Brouwer. Until now, schools and police have been unable to communicate with each other about truancy records and criminality, which are often linked.
SQL Server, MySQL, or Oracle? Think of the markets if more countries follow this! Larry Ellison must be drooling.
Discuss.