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In order to receive a confidentiality mark on an
address and telephone number, an application must be made at the same time as applying for a personal identity number from the Swedish Tax Agency, because it is connected with national registration. The special requirement for receiving the confidentiality mark is that the person in question is a victim of violence, threats of violence, persecution or other sorts of harassment. A confidentiality mark is no guarantee of complete confidentiality— when asked to provide personal data, the authority will carry out an independent confidentiality assessment and may then decide that the data can be released— but it does help to prevent websites that list contact information from publishing the artist’s address. Confidentiality marks are reassessed each year to ascertain whether it is still needed. Housing and mobile phone Here are a few suggestions about how to deal with housing and telephone. Remember that the most fundamental way of keeping housing details anonymous is to never provide the address to anyone and to apply for a confidentiality mark when the artist requests a personal identity number from the Swedish Tax Agency. If the address of the flat becomes publicly known during the artist’s stay, it can prove difficult to guarantee anonymity for the next artist to arrive if that person is in greater need of protection. An artist may feel more secure if the accommodation: ● is in an area where there is high pedestrian movement, ● is not located on the ground floor, ● has a code lock on the entrance to the building, ● has a generalised fictitious name on the door, ● is equipped with a computer connected via a VPN tunnel. As for mobile phone security, it should be borne in mind that most modern mobile phones have a GPS function that often automatically shows where a person is. So it is good to remember to: 41/49