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Norwegian Ecocrime to Monitor Net-users?

Posted by michael on from the jumping-on-the-bandwagon dept.

egjertse writes "Norwegian Ecocrime, the department for economic crime; also responsible for investigating computer crime, wants to keep logs on all norwegian internet users according to this article in norwegian business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv. English summary of the article follows: "Ecocrime feels that the increase in internet related crime makes it necessary to demand all internet users to identify themselves online - If ecocrime get what they want, all your activities on the internet will be registered. Attorney general Inger Marie Sunde describes a system where all internet users must identify themselves using some sort of smart-card. Internet cafes will also be required to keep logs on all their customers, their identities, and their activities online - logs that will be handed over to the police when requested. Sunde also wants to increase the penalties for computer crime and make anonymous cellphones illegal.""

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  1. Your Papers Please by Detritus · · Score: 3
    As a friend used to say, people in Hell want ice water.

    Public policy should not revolve around making life easier for the police and prosecutor's office, at the expense of everyone else's rights.

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    Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
  2. In other news, by AbbyNormal · · Score: 3

    due to the fact that a citizen could possibly commit a crime everytime he/she steps outside, authorities are now requiring every person to wear a GPS signal transmitter.

    The new agency dubbed BBW (Big Brother is Watching) will begin implementing its policies starting next week. Citizen will be required to purchase these GPS wristbands at their own expense.

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    Sig it.
  3. History of abuse of governmental power by jmt(tm) · · Score: 3

    Although in europe, we generally have a better privacy protection than in the US, it sometimes turns out that the government and the police loke at themselves as standing outside this strict laws.

    In norway, the social democrats, being in the government after World War II, made great use of internal intelligence in order to keep an eye on people with different political opinion. This was in no way allowed by norwegian law, and there were big discussions when it became known to the public in the mid nineties.

    In germany, social democrats in the eighties build up the system of "berufsverbote", which meant that people, who acted e.g. as candidates for local councils for a legal party, were not allowed to work in the public sector.

    In both times, the power of social democratic government was used against leftists. Today, there is a social democratic government in norway. I'm not amused about the prospect that this time they abuse their power to monitor the movements of every neticen.

    Having moved to norway some months ago, I dislike the norwegian behavior very much, as I did in the deCSS-case. Hopefully, ecocrime will not get through.


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