integrity
- September 25, 2008
a settlement regarding the swedish surveillance law
Information i have received indicates that there have been a settlement regarding the Swedish surveillance law. Which so far seems to be fairly good news.
As i have heard the new law will still force operators to hand over all their traffic over Swedish borders, but with the following changes:
- Only the parliament and military will be able to order searches for traffic. Not other government agencies, police or the secret police as was the case before.
- All searches must be approved by a special court before implemented.
Well this is much better than before, but there still is some issues with the writing in the law that was really bad before. Lets hope they change that to in the final version that is expected to be presented to the parliament in December.
So it seems like the hurricane amongst bloggers in Sweden did pay off, even if i think some people wont rest before the law is ditched alltogether. But the jury is still out, i won’t call them back until i have read the actual law…
Aftonbladet writes about the law here
(In Swedish, use google translate as usual.)
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