“According to the CTIVD, these intelligence services sometimes receive a signal “about a person or a few persons” and then decide to investigate an entire community based on that.”
Dutch police intelligence units crossed the legal line three times in four months of 2022. A tip about a few people turned into surveillance of a whole group defined by ethnicity, religion or occupation. The public doesn’t get to know which communities. The minister’s response is that ethnic background is “inevitable” to consider but “not the purpose.” Every profiling program says that.