The European Court of Human Rights wants Finland to justify the media's use of creating searchable databases of individuals' income and tax data, reports Helsingin Sanomat.
Tax payments are a matter of public record in Finland, and the Finnish Tax Administration publishes a list of the top earners every year.
Two individuals have lodged complaints with the ECHR, one of whom is a tax lawyer. Both complainants note that their income details have been published for years in the tax databases of Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat, a practice they argue infringes on their privacy as they are not public figures.
Each year, Finnish media outlets release databases listing individuals with annual earnings exceeding 150,000 euros, with occasional exceptions below that threshold. Ilta-Sanomat, for its part, currently sets the bar at 120,000 euros.
"This is not an exercise"
Several outlets, including Hufvudstadsbladet, report that alarms over potential drones in Estonian airspace forced a Finnair night flight to Tartu to turn back around midnight.
Shortly after midnight, the Estonian Defence Forces issued an alert warning of potentially dangerous aerial objects. The message, published on the Estonian government's website at around 00:30, noted that "as part of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, potentially hazardous aircraft may enter Estonian airspace." It added: "This is not an exercise."
The potential threat was said to cover all of eastern and southern Estonia.
Finnair responded by recalling its night flight from Helsinki to Tartu 30 minutes into the journey.
Labour of love
Maaseudun Tulevaisuus reports on a different kind of dairy economy. If a mother produces more milk than her own baby needs, she can help other infants while earning some money in the process.
Nora Mäntysaari sells her milk to the breast milk bank of Turku University Hospital. On a good day, she can express as much as half a litre, which is enough to feed even a couple of hundred infants.
"What could be better than nourishing other babies with your own milk," she asks.
The hospital has paid 30 euros per litre, and the income is tax-free, but the process isn't exactly effortless.
"Life with a baby is demanding. Not everyone approaches it thinking, 'now we’ll start washing and sterilising bottles too,'" she told MT.
