The concept of privacy in Italy has taken a battering. On the internet, the income details of all tax paying Italians were posted:

“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.”

link: Italy posts income details on web

The exposure of such detailed information is unprecedented - and so is the anger of the Italian citizen who consider tax records to be personal confidential information.

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
FlyingHamster: http://flyinghamster.com/

Tags: income, privacy, security, italy, internet, taxes, data breach