[Gllug] NHS opt out - IBM and the Nazis

[David Damerell]

On 26 Jan 2007, Chris Jones outgrape:
>You can't seriously think that the NHS trying to make a national
>database (something our government utterly, utterly sucks at, so there's
>no reason to assume it will even happen) is in any way relevant to IBM
>making databases for the Nazis?!

During WW2, the Nazis were easily able to identify Jews in the
Netherlands thanks to... their national ID card.

There _is_ a point here; a perfectly reasonable government may bring
in such a measure with the best of intentions, but it still may have
dismal consequences later.

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