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"This system was built and created for a different time where criminality was pretty much absent in Sweden" When was this golden age of (almost) no crime, I wonder?
I’m sure this is alluding to the common anti-immigration sentiment, where all crime is blamed on refugees that are constantly othered and hated.
Almost as interesting, you can (as I understand it) look up the current salary of anyone you want to. Though in doing so they will be notified that you have done so.
There are companies that download the entire salary database and sell 'lookups' in their database. This way you can look up anyone you want and no one gets notified of anything.
Heja Sverige!
I don't think this is true. You can apply for "Skyddade personuppgifter" (Protected personal data) which means your details won't be publicly viewable. Here is the documentation from the police: https://polisen.se/utsatt-for-brott/hjalp-och-stod-fran-samh... and here is the details from the tax agency: https://www.skatteverket.se/foretagochorganisationer/myndigh... I know bunch of other people who have protected iden…
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Or are you saying you did apply for this and it wasn't successful?
I don't think this is true. You can apply for "Skyddade personuppgifter" (Protected personal data) which means your details won't be publicly viewable. Here is the documentation from the police: https://polisen.se/utsatt-for-brott/hjalp-och-stod-fran-samh... and here is the details from the tax agency: https://www.skatteverket.se/foretagochorganisationer/myndigh... I know bunch of other people who have protected iden…
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I don't think this is true. You can apply for "Skyddade personuppgifter" (Protected personal data) which means your details won't be publicly viewable. Here is the documentation from the police: https://polisen.se/utsatt-for-brott/hjalp-och-stod-fran-samh... and here is the details from the tax agency: https://www.skatteverket.se/foretagochorganisationer/myndigh... I know bunch of other people who have protected iden…
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"This system was built and created for a different time where criminality was pretty much absent in Sweden" When was this golden age of (almost) no crime, I wonder?
This is an industry that only really became possible (and socially acceptable) in the last couple decades. Before that, the data may have been public, and isolated criminals would've no doubt used it, but in general there wasn't an entire industry dedicated to exploiting this data at large scale.
I'm confused, is the data coming from official government database itself or companies are just allowed to gather data coming from various random sources?