Norway is great for data privacy, however as you say, there isn't a Silicon Valley or anything similar, even in Oslo. There are some good tech groups, and some good university groups spread around, a good amount of design and media organizations, and a much larger percentage of the population know what Twitter and Facebook are and use smartphones, and youth are basically acquainted with most 4chan memes. The biggest and most notorious tech group really is Opera, which also accounts for a significant chunk of the country's data traffic (Opera also operates a very huge proxy service for mobile devices).
Despite what I'd consider to be a fairly (in U.S. terms) progressive government organization that is pro-privacy, Norway has recently enacted its own local version of the E.U. Data Retention Directive.
* Norway's Data Authority: http://www.datatilsynet.no/templates/Page____194.aspx
Despite what I'd consider to be a fairly (in U.S. terms) progressive government organization that is pro-privacy, Norway has recently enacted its own local version of the E.U. Data Retention Directive.
* EU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
* Norwegian version: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js...
So basically, even one of the better countries for data privacy still has its own struggles.