> "Since 2014 it has been possible to find out who has been doing searches on your information," explains Hans Christian Holte, the head of Norway's tax authority.
> "We saw a significant drop to about a 10th of the volume that was before. I think it has taken out the Peeping Tom mentality."
This is just genius. And yet I'm imagining some simple ways around this that would inevitably pop up were this a thing in my country.
I wish the not anonymous to search feature were applied to home addresses and home purchases too. I see the benefit of the data being publicly available but wouldn’t want it abused by the wrong parties.
Haven't heard stories in a while, but I think it made some interactions awkward and in general lead to more equality.
One wrinkle is that it's not anonoymous in Norway to search, which skews it a little
See https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40669239