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  If you have a stalker and have reported this to the police, you can  apply for privacy marking with the Swedish tax agency, which will then exempt you from the public registry
  Goes for anyone who has cause for protected identity and can certify this with police paperwork
context: In Sweden you can look up anyone’s crime record and income with the click of a button, it’s good for checking out potential tinder dates (the crime record part, not the income) but it’s also kinda creepy that pretty much your entire life is public and you can’t block access to your info. >
  
  Everyone’s income is public knowledge? >
  
  Yup, you can either contact our tax agency for free or pay a symbolic sum to one of the companies that provide this information, I think in some cases the person will be informed that you’ve made the request though. >
  
  How interesting…. I know that would make for a very different situation here in the states. >
  
  Sweden's kind of big on transparency. You can also google where pretty much anyone lives and what their phone number is. If you google my name and surname you'll get the precise address I live at, what year I was born, when my birthday is etc. Eniro.se and many similar sites function as modern day phonebooks. 
  Just last week I found someone's ID at one of those 24/7 unmanned convenience stores. I looked the name up on Eniro to see where he lived so I could go put it in his mailbox. >
  
  Seems like a bad country to live in if you have a stalker problem.