Oh please. This is one of the few countries in the world where you can still hide your wealth and avoid paying taxes. Govnerments around the world are working o

Oh please. This is one of the few countries in the world where you can still hide your wealth and avoid paying taxes. Govnerments around the world are working on, and have for a long time, to create deals to exchange information. If what you're doing is within the law then SKAT gains zero new information, because they already know about every financial transactions they are supposed to know about. Here SKAT had an oppotunity to gain that information anyway, and that is a clear signal to criminals that they shouldn't feel safe hiding behind some beneficial countrys laws. Your example with a worm, is a straw man. Infecting millions of computers and shifting through it all to collect doubtful infomation is hardly the same. SKAT have been trying to get their hands on this infomation for decades, through legitimate deals. Now someone presents it to them via a different channel. If you want it to be comparable, it is someone infiltrating a torrent tracker and use information from that to sell to collection agencies. They still cannot use the information for anything but prompt a real investigation. After all we don't know if the information is real or not. If you want to do that, be my guest - I don't have a problem with it. About the law, it cannot be changed willy-nilly, it still have to be voted for in the parliament.