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by BrandoElFollito 1294 days ago
I live in France and while we do not have public records (or just a very few), we do not have identifiers that can be easily used to do something nefarious. Our social security number, or the tax one is not used anywhere as a secure identifier (as opposed to, say, US with their SS# that is tragically comical).

We do like secrecy, though, and opening up the tax reports and addresses would be a 12 on the Richter scale of earthquakes. I do not know whether that would be good or bad but it would lead to all sorts of social unrest.