Statistics Norway wants to receive several million daily receipts from food stores, signalling a new era in state data collection. Privacy advocates and the supermarkets themselves are unhappy.
People living in Norway are used to big government. But the latest news coming out of Oslo is a surprising new step down the road of data collection that not everyone is happy with.… Read the rest
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When Is A Prison Not A Prison? When It’s A Rehabilitation Farm in Norway
Felons in a village without bars or locks getting ready to return to the social world
Retraining felons to be part of the world through ecological responsibility? Sounds like the kind of social forward thinking that Norway is famous for.
It will be very interesting to track recidivism rates.
This short video is a clear stimulus to rethink our highly profitable, massively unsuccessful penal system which is, in truth, nothing short of brutal slavery since most of the profits of our bloated private prison system come from the slave labor of the penal property, otherwise known as prisoners.… Read the rest