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And unfortunately the tabloid press would use this to attack people why they don't like or disagree with - Norway does not have a nasty tabloid press like some other countries.

It could also be used by criminals scoping out targets for burglary

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Finland has the same system as Norway, and Finnish tabloids are full of the incomes & taxes of the rich and famous every year once the tax records come out. Last year, one of them published the tax records of all Finns earning over 120k EUR/year:

http://www.iltalehti.fi/verot-2016/tiedot/

http://www.iltalehti.fi/verot-2016/tiedot/top-kaikki.shtml (the top 2000)

But there doesn't seem to be any nefarious agenda to that, simply that it sells papers.

and you think the ends justify the means for news papers no matter what the human cost ?

What human cost?

Lives destroyed dead girls phones hacked forced suicides take your pic

What?

Not sure what that has to do specifically with publishing the incomes of rich people. Also, in general, Finnish yellow press is really damn tame compared to "real" tabloids like those in the UK.

read http://hackinginquiry.org/

Celebs and the so called metropolitan elites or judges who might take issue with Rupert Murdoch, Paul Dace and the Barclay Brothers and thus put themselves in the presses firing lines

So only ~2000 people in Finland make more money than run of the mill senior/staff software engineer at Google.

No, that's the top 2000 of the people making over 120k. #2000 came in at around 510k EUR (~600k USD).

If I were scoping targets for burglary, I'd perhaps look for signs of assets worth stealing instead, but maybe just a sign of my inexperience

Or, call me crazy, go look at people's houses.

which leaves an evidential trail

I have a high salary but you'd have a hard time finding much worth stealing in my house - my money's all in the bank.

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