Privacy be Damned Dept: Italian Gov't Posts Tax Details of Every Citizen Online

[mandy]

The British government might be useless at keeping our data safe, but the outgoing Italian government has gone one better - it has published the tax details of every single Italian on a website and made them available to anyone interested.

The Italian revenue deliberately published the information in an effort to increase transparency and reduce tax evasion...

The Italian tax office published names, addresses, dates of birth, declared income, and tax paid. Which sounds to us like enough information to engage in a serious bit of identity theft...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/01/...x_details/

The site was taken down after the Italian privacy watchdog ruled it violated Italian privacy laws.

[jezebel]

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