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Swedish watchdog orders Lexbase and Krimfup to stop unlawful crime searches

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Sweden’s privacy watchdog has ordered Lexbase and Krimfup to stop letting users retrieve unlawfully processed criminal information by searching a person’s name, personal identity number or address.

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