| Interesting to read about the Norway's system! I would guess that "If you search for anyone, they can see that you did" is pretty fair but can hinder one's curiosity for searching the information. Also interesting that public lists for media is no longer distributed. How have media outlets taken this? Here in Finland Tax office publishes lists of all over 100k earners to media and they are published as public lists online [0]. In addition to that, anyone's income information can be accessed at tax offices or by phone, so this does not leave a trace [1]. After GDPR, one is allowed to prevent one's information to be released to media by objecting to this. However media can still access and release your data via phone or tax office's computer [2] and in 2021 media outlets won a case in Administrative Court where they can also get a list of those who objected [3]. So basically after tax records go public, journalists just take this list and make the calls. But yeah, as SP mentioned, this is very different approach than in the link of this thread. [0]: (in Finnish) https://www.is.fi/verotiedot/ [1]: https://www.vero.fi/en/About-us/finnish-tax-administration/d... [2]: https://www.vero.fi/en/About-us/finnish-tax-administration/d... [3]: https://yle.fi/news/3-11893060 |