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The Week: Best of the blogs - Privacy as a web currency.
Traffic fines in Finland are calculated as a percentage of your annual salary. It is rather easy to calculate these fines because .. wait for it ... in Finland, your salary is a matter of public record.
In fact, it's even better than that. If you want to know a colleague's annual salary, there's no need to go along to the local post office and fill in a form. No, you just send a text to a short code containing the person's name and address and, a few minutes later, back comes their full annual salary.
What is fascinating is the extent to which an idea of privacy varies so greatly from one society to another. You can see how much this attitude to privacy matters in a super Prospect article by the wonderful Peter Bazalgette. In short, what Peter says is that much of the content on the internet is not really paid for in 'attention ...
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