Swedes Revolt Against Online Snooping
June 18, 2007 By LOUISE NORDSTROM, Associated Press Writer
Swedish web site Ratsit.se on a computer screen, taken June 13, 2007 in Stockholm Sweden. Online credit checks have become a popular pastime in Sweden after a Web site called Ratsit.se in November started publishing financial details, free-of-charge, from the national tax authority. The site has some 610,000 registered users in a country of 9 million, and an average of 50,000 online credit checks a day. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Anders Wiklund)
(AP) -- Want to know how much your boss earns? Or whether your daughter's fiance is in debt? For Swedes, it takes just a few clicks on the Internet to find out.
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