Dutch government to pay million Euro fine over racist data discrimination
The child benefit thing was a complete clusterfuck and racism was only part of it.<p>Basically the tax service decided some people were scamming the child daycare support system and turned on them. Any attempts to fight it from the parents were stonewalled and people were fined and got into massive debt and some even committed suicide. Most of them had done nothing wrong. The problem here is the Dutch tax system that has a &quot;guilty unless proven innocent&quot; setup.<p>Then when it was brought to attention by some politicians they were stonewalled and eventually even sidelined. The mainstream politicians kept turning their eyes away.<p>Eventually it did blow up in the media. The government fell. However the same people that turned a blind eye are now incumbent to government once again. The whistleblowers were rewarded with a snarky remark to &quot;find a function elsewhere&quot;.<p>The racism here is bad but it&#x27;s only the tip of the iceberg.