A new integrity hostile Swedish law on it’s way?

It’s only gone a couple of days since the Swedish parliament voted yes to a law forcing all operators with cables or fiber over the Swedish border to send a copy of all signals to a huge spy center ready to tap into all communication.

I have barley managed to settle down a bit after the last law and have started to sketch on some post Lex Orwell business plans (More about that in a later post, things are a little bit to raw to publish yet. But when i’m ready i will publish Lex Orwell countermeasures here and on Infotropic’s homepage.) when i heard about “Dir. 2008:71 Översyn av lagen (2002:297) om biobanker i hälso- och sjukvården m.m.”
(Directive 2008:71 a review of the law regarding biological samples in the health sector”.) A quote from this directive is “analysera vilka behov de brottsbekämpande myndigheterna har av att kunna ta vävnadsprover från PKU-biobanken i beslag.” (to analyze which needs the crime fighting authorities have to seize tissue samples from the PKU-biological samples)

The thing is that since 1975 a blood sample has been taken from every newborn child in Sweden, this sample is used for research about Phenylketonuria (PKU) and is stored for use in future research. In total about 3.3 Million Swedes have blood samples in this register.

That is our government is now starting to think about how to collect these samples to enable a DNA register covering more than a third of the Swedish population!
Surely a wet dream for the state and the police, but is this level of control something we really want? Why not issuing a GPS receiver to every citizen that transmits location data to a central location registry right away? It would save lots off effort when fighting crime and also lowers the number of DNA profiles you have to check against the national DNA register.

I firmly believe that we all need to put our foot down and stop this slippery slope into a society where everyone is constantly monitored.

I started by sending a mail to socialstyrelsen (The national board of health and welfare) asking for how i can withdraw all my samples from the Swedish PKU register and at the same time destroy all other blood samples for me and my family that might be stored at Swedish hospitals. If you are a Swede (Or born in Sweden after 1975, or ever have given a blood sample in Sweden!) please do the same. Contact socialstyrelsen@socialstyrelsen.se and ask for information.

Note to foreigners, mail to all Swedish branches of government both paper and electronic are public. That is it have to be properly registered, answered and afterwards the public (and press) has access to this information. If enough people request information regarding this, there for certain will be even more press covering this.

Note i first read about this news here (Site in Swedish, let google translate loose on the page.).

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