@[email protected] horrible, but I don’t appreciate the clickbait title. There’s no “selling” of personal data, the article also doesn’t mention selling. It’s archaic laws allowing this thing to happen:
> Under current national laws, [personal] data can be accessed by companies for purposes ranging from marketing to verification.
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Agreed, the title gives zero information.
The Austrian-based privacy group noyb has filed a lawsuit against Sweden's Tax Agency, accusing it of illegally selling citizens' personal information to data brokers, a practice it says violates both national and EU data protection laws.
As you said, it's laws needing to catch up to what is current.
My God. I'm not a Swedish lawyer, so there be nuance here I don't understand. But Sweden's own Ministry of Justice has stated that an exception to the constitutional principle of open records is, "the protection of the personal or financial circumstances of natural or legal persons."
Perhaps it's different there, but we American lawyers would say "well, duh," in a case like this.