If this practice continues, you will be able to track people over quite some amount of time and get a somewhat good idea of their financial situation and how it has developed. Think excel sheets and graphs and figures.

Luckily the numbers are skewed a bit by debt and deductions. If the purpose is to avoid tax fraud then its strange that they don’t post the full details (not that I want to give them any ideas).

Also, there’s a difference between what you can find if you enter a name into a search form, and what appears if you google someone. It may be there, but hard to find. In any case, I think it’s shocking that the newspaper are allowing these data to be crawled by search engines at all.

I am principally against them, and despite some attempts at a grass roots campaign (www.neitilskattelister.no) the practice just don’t seem to go away. It’s bad enough that everything you ever said or did or was accused of online can be googled… why add more injury to privacy by publishing tax records? Compared to other privacy problems that come with the internet, this one is easily avoided.