As an American-Brit who has been living in Sweden for a couple of years, I've always found it interesting that pretty much everyone I know here can be found at their home address simply by googling their name and clicking on hitta.se. When I show this to my British or American friends, they're always shocked, and I find myself explaining that "Swedes have a very different, more trusting, relationship with their government than Brits or Americans."
Personally, I've never had a problem arise from this, and neither has anyone I know here, but I've been here less than for two years. I love it here and I can see myself living here for the rest of my life (that is, if you'll have me! Soon time to renew my visa!)
But I find myself wondering: Has anyone here, or anyone you know, ever had a problem arise from their address being listed publicly? Strange people turning up at your door, weird post or packages, or something worse?
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The original was posted on /r/sweden by /u/adjectivenounnr at 2023-07-06 07:00:45+00:00.
LGre9 at 2023-07-06 07:16:34+00:00 ID:
jqv45lrNot personally. But for very rich people, CEO’s and so I know it can be a problem. It’s so easy to look up everything from your adress, how many cars you own, if you own business, how much money you make, so that it’s paradise for criminals who want information.
That’s not the purpose of the ”openness”, it’s more meant to for example counteract corruption, but it can be a consequence. This system doesn’t work anymore in today’s society and should be removed in favour of more protection and privacy for the private individual. At the very least people should have to demand the information from Skatteverket, not allow internet sites to publish it all. That would make it a bit more work at least.
chlomor at 2023-07-06 13:00:29+00:00 ID:
jqvufuxTechnically searchable databases of public info like this should fall under GDPR, the reason they don’t is because they are registered as ”publications” (like, newspapers), and thus fall under Yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen.
Maybe the law needs an update so that searchable databases can’t be protected this way, but then online news sites would not be able to have search functions, and likely many other problems.
Fisktor at 2023-07-06 10:33:09+00:00 ID:
jqvfdfbI mean criminals can pretty easily find rich people anyway, just go to the rich parts of town…