Swedish Web Site Restricts Credit Checks

June 1, 2007 By LOUISE NORDSTROM , Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Swedes will no longer be able to snoop through each other's finances anonymously after a popular Web site agreed to tighten the rules on its credit information services, officials said Friday.

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