The city also keeps track of the number of young people hanging out in the streets, their age group, whether they know each other, the atmosphere and whether or not they cause a nuisance. Special enforcement officers keep track of this information through mobile devices. It calls this process “targeted and innovative supervision”. Other council documents mention the prediction of school drop-outs, the prediction of poverty and the monitoring of “the health of certain groups” with the aim of “intervening faster”.
Except it's not actually being used anymore [0] with the original operations, scope and data all being documented publicly. That's the downside of referencing 7 year old articles.
It's really not worth my time finding the research for every single fallacious claim made; the Netherlands is not in the top 10 for physical or digital surveillance[0], nor is it likely get close to China or USA even if they wanted[1]
