ineseri here, bringing you yet another topic from Sweden, this time about our goverment and privacy. SÄPO (Swedish equivalent of FBI, CIA and NSA) is in secret negotiations with several telecommunications companies. They have proposed a idea, where they want to get instant access to a subscribers e-mail and telephone records, without first going to the police and requesting a warrant. Swedish intelligence service officers and criminal investigators alike should then be free to enter and retrieve information about who is calling and when, retrieve every e-mail and text-messages sent, where this person is when he/she sent the message or whenever placing a call.

 

This is a huge threat to privacy. One company (Tele2, the one I am using, yay) have refused to participate in these discussion. They do not want to give data away about individuals, and they stand by that statement. 

 

 

 

Source: (http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article17866909.ab). It's in Swedish, run it through a translator if you want to get a general idea of it). 

Hey i use Tele2 to, but only in the Netherlands.

I believe they wanted to do that here to but that it got rejected by 75% of the companies.. 

i would love to translate that page but my translator wont work                 

i would love to translate that page but my translator wont work                 

Want me to translate it? :P

Want me to translate it? :P

nahhhhh im fine

Are they lazy? I mean, to read e-mails, texts and look up phone calls is something the Security police is still able to do, they just need to talk with the judge first. Since SÄPO is working with counter-espionage and anti-terror I can see why they would want the possibility to check stuff without a judge giving the OK. You might want as few people knowing about your business as possible for obvious reasons. 

 

I wonder if a lot of people are worried they willl start hunting piracy crime like they did communists in the 80's but I don't think thats the case. 

 

Hire some experienced judges that work only side by side with SÄPO 24/7 and they won't need this. Sometimes they need something done quick and in Sweden, after 4pm the whole gorvernment has gone home.

At least they asked first and are only doing it to their only people... *cough* CIA *cough* MI5

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It's not that they are lazy, they want to do it without public input. (i.e judge). And that is a serious breach of privacy. Why do they feel the need to be able to read my email? If they want to do that, they must do it through the proper channels. 

It's not that they are lazy, they want to do it without public input. (i.e judge). And that is a serious breach of privacy. Why do they feel the need to be able to read my email? If they want to do that, they must do it through the proper channels. 

 

 

I hear you. And to some extent I agree with you. I would think they could have all the proper channels within SÄPO so they would'nt need to spill the beans to an outside judge that you can't trust. Stop invading privacy and hire some judges.