And, the Netherlands have about the most all encompassing citizens database on the globe. So all data is cross referenced all over the place amongst databases of all civil governmental and semi-governmental agencies . It's so vast that indeed it's not only hard, but virtually impossible to remove data completely. As an example: The colour, structure and density of pubescent children is stored. All this data is directly accessible via the misnomed 'Citizen Service Number'. We dutch tend to call it the 'Citizens Spying Number'.

In his book http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/1932594019.html he poses (in the last chapters) some very thought provoking ideas concerning free will/consiousness. Haven't yet read anything that feels more adequate....