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Well... for me, there's literally no reason my neighbors (or any other random person on the internet) needs to know all that information about me or my family...

It's funny how much energy there is behind things like GDPR preventing a company from transferring people's email address to a partner, when, by comparison, this is much more sensitive information.

I don't think that having free healthcare or college requires baring private financial and other information to any nosy busybody who wants it.




Thank you for the nuances; my main issue with the comment was dismissing Sweden as an option for good, which seemed quite unproportional. Sweden is a good country to live in, regardless of their policy on sharing this kind of information

Personally, I think openness about taxes, fortune etc. is good to check that everyone contributes as they should. But before it was protected by login, at least in Norway, there was a (minor) problem with maps showing which streets had the wealthiest inhabitants (the police didn't like it)




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