I can't believe you're comparing Holland to China and Nazi Germany.
This doesn't sound that bad. It sounds good to me, actually. If everyone's fingerprints are on a database, that seems like it should make criminal investigation a lot easier, or at least scare criminals out of the country before they have to give up their fingerprints.
This comes from someone who lives in a country whose government invaded its people's privacy by wire-tapping and checking their emails. I don't doubt there's a collective decline of civilization, but it isn't because of an invisibile governmental dystopia, it's like what BM said, the public is growing more infantilized and paranoid due to overprotection and the nonexistant shitstorm the media makes the world out to be on a daily basis. It's a combination of people being people and the profit-motivated higher-ups that are willing to do anything in the public's favor if it makes them money. It's a problem that exacerbates itself.
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