• mumblerfish@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    They are not strictly “selling” it, right? They charge a service fee for a request of public information. At least in part that is because these shitty companies cost a lot because of all their shitty requests so they can sell the information for profit.

  • eee (they/them)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    For anyone not reading the article: “[In Sweden], the tax authority doesn’t just use this information for administrative purposes – but sells it to data brokers who publish it online.”

    The government shouldn’t ever sell people’s private data - not for profit, not for anything.

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      23 hours ago

      It is though, this article is just garbage. This data is available for free to the public already.