Sometimes, there is no privacy in Finland
19/04/2005 03:26 | Categories: General, Privacy | 0 Comments
Last weekend I found out that if you send a message like this:
VERO NAME SURNAME CITY
To number 16400 (Zed's service number I think), you can get anybody's tax information from year 2003. Or in other words, your own private tax information is available to anyone knowing your name, city and willing to spend a bit over a Euro for the SMS. No wonder talking about salaries here in Finland is considered a taboo topic... anybody's salary information is only one SMS away! Considering how concerned people here are about privacy, I am surprised that this service even exists 
I am not too happy about this. I need to find out whether I can remove my information from this service. I would have hoped that this was an "opt-in" service instead of an "opt-out" one.
PS: Yes, I've already used to find out the salaries of some of my colleagues... 