Documents containing personal identity codes and passport copies have been available for purchase in the PRH information service
The Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) has gone through 5.7 million Trade Register documents in its electronic archive to improve data protection and make the system safer for customers. The documents are notifications submitted to the Finnish Trade Register and supporting documents in which companies should only have included public information (and not, for example, personal identity codes), as instructed by the PRH. The PRH went through the documents using batch processing, which showed that documents containing personal identity codes and passport copies have been