>>>Well, if you can tell me any "freedom" which you have and we don't, I will throw in 2 "freedoms" we have and you don't for each you povide.
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>>I am not fluent in Norwegian culture, but could you list some freedoms you have that we don't?
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>I can tell you a couple of thing that you have there that make me cringe...
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>1) Using "the mail" (and I think it includes telephone and other over-the-wire services) as any part of anything found to be criminal can lead to Federal involvement and big fat juicy sentences. Which I bet also leads to there being sanctioned FBI (or other) access to your mail, including opening it.
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>2) Credit scores are way too integrated into daily life there. A change in your score (you are not even advised that it has changed, you have to go look for yourself) can result automatically in higher credit card interest rates or force higher loan rates. It can be used by potential employers as a job screening device. I bet that by now boy friends and girl friends check out each other's scores as a matter of course.
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>Not to mention the "Patriot Act". It has provisions (we have a similar act here, by the way, but I believe our administrators who use it are not as paranoid as yours) that over-zealous administrators have already proven lets them go wayyyy overboard without breaking that law.
>It also lets people be taken right off the street (apparently in foreign countries too) and stored away without benefit of representation or even informing families.

Hmm, it seems that Norway is a dangerous place.