Norway has had a whole slew of cases now of top civil servants being sacked and/or sued for abusing access to private documents.
It doesn't really matter if you're taking Facebook or the State: if you create huge repositories of private data, access will be abused illegally.
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It's striking that Norway is a country where you can be banned from almost all forms of civil service if caught w/some weed.
But you're a boss at the Labour and Welfare Administration caught snooping on your neighbors?
You can get a new job in county administration the next day.
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One ongoing case:
Some boss gets caught accessing documents on 100s of neighbors, employees, friends of friends...
Was attempting to find dirt on neighbors she didn't like, according to her own testimony in court.
Currently employed in public administration somewhere else.
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I am at a short job in a sparsely populated county admin.
I am employed at one of the lowest levels, minimal access.
I can access tens of thousands of salary files, employment histories, debt histories, sick notes...
State admin has this access times 1000, across every level.
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And the consequences of abusing this access, in an attempt to pin dirt on ppl you don't like?
Slight reduction in pay and overall access...
Accountability is a big joke.
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