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BBC NEWS | Europe | Italy posts income details on web

There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian's declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet.

The tax authority's website was inundated by people curious to know how much their neighbours, celebrities or sports stars were making.

The Italian treasury suspended the website after a formal complaint from the country's privacy watchdog.

The information was put on the site with no warning for nearly 24 hours.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 12:36:27 PM EST
Italians certainly needed a day of fun and small revenge.  I hope it gets leaked everywhere.

Beppe Grillo made over €4 million that year.  I´ll try to cricket a lot louder now.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 01:18:18 PM EST
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