They are not strictly “selling” it, right? They charge a service fee for a request of public information. At least in part that is because these shitty companies cost a lot because of all their shitty requests so they can sell the information for profit.

For anyone not reading the article: “[In Sweden], the tax authority doesn’t just use this information for administrative purposes – but sells it to data brokers who publish it online.”

The government shouldn’t ever sell people’s private data - not for profit, not for anything.

This is going to get interesting. Major culture clash.

I fear this will end with Sweden losing and being forced another step to the right.

I fear that they will lose though. That stuff is so deeply ingrained in lots of systems all over the country.

Tf is is garbage about? Offentlighetsprincipen is real.

The data is available for anyone to request for free.

Income/tax data shouldn’t be confidential, but all public.