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Although this sounds pretty serious to you and me, the English government is doing nothing about it.

An innocent Dutch man has been locked up for two weeks (eng) in a Belgium prison. Earlier, his identity documents had been stolen in Rotterdam. The thief used those documents to commit all sorts of cirmes in Belgium.

Governments are attaching more value to identity documents these days. But they have no idea how to handle a situation of stolen identity documents and identity theft. I know the Dutch government obliges every Dutch citizen to always carry an ID, but it's far more safer to leave it at home when you don't need it to have it with you.

The U.S. goverment is probably getting access to bank account information (eng) of every EU citizen. And of course all in order to 'fight terrorism'. Of course, this is pretty scary. But even more scary is the fact that there is no end to this. We still have a little privacy left... to lose...

Nissan created a system to assist the driver based on GPS and map information.

I hope Nissan realizes that map information in GPS systems isn't always up to date. You might wonder whether the chance of incorrect road information is higher than a person overspeeding when approaching a curve in the road.

I've decided to restart my security weblog. I know not many people read my weblog. After all, the world is filled with weblogs. But I'm doing it more for myself. Having this weblog forces me to think about all the security news items. I wanna stay focussed on what's going on with security, specially in the Netherlands.