Dutch watchdog slams tax office fraud list as privacy breach
A Dutch data protection watchdog issued a damning report Friday about the country’s tax office, saying it breached privacy law for years by keeping a list of potential fraudsters.
The Dutch tax office stored personal details of taxpayers as part of its efforts to root out fraud, which is not allowed under privacy law in the Netherlands, the data protection agency said. Watchdog said tax officials had no legal foundation for the fraud alert system and kept people on the list for too long.
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