Enforced transparency in Latvia

Last week Latvian officials were slightly surprised to see their rather inflated salaries made very public by a organization calling itself the People's Army of the Fourth Awakening. The group "stole millions of classified tax documents from government computers in a purported effort to expose waste and graft in Europe's weakest economy."

It has "embarrassed politicians and other public officials whose income and wealth — often many times the national average — are being exposed to the public at a time when Latvia is undergoing painful budget cutbacks to rebound from a severe recession."

Similar to the expenses scandal that rocked UK politics, citizens are finding ways to expose corruption and publically reveal the excess of those in power.

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