Up until a few years ago, something similar used to happen when you bought a TV set here in Sweden. If you bought one, your information was shared with the ent

Up until a few years ago, something similar used to happen when you bought a TV set here in Sweden. If you bought one, your information was shared with the entity ("Radiotjänst") in charge of collecting the mandatory TV fee (funding public service radio and TV programming). The fee is now collected as tax instead, so that's no longer the case.