> The Nordic countries are perhaps closer to the image you're painting. Personal tax information is famously public in Sweden, for example.

It used to be much more open, with phonebooks and open tax records, but the last decades I think every Scandinavian country have started prioritizing especially online privacy. E. g. the Norwegian Datatilsynet used to be legendarily tough on things like public CCTV, and now they go after even random chrome extensions.

It's infamously difficult to dox someone from Scandinavia compared to e. g. the US with tons of databrokers.