Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan

An anonymous reader writes "No one seems to have noticed that Sweden is close to passing a far-reaching wiretapping program that would greatly expand the government's spying capabilities by permitting it to monitor all email and telephone traffic coming in and out of the country. If a bill before parliament becomes law, the country's National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) will monitor all internet traffic that passes in or out of the country. As the article notes, there's a good chance email traveling from, say, the UK to Finland would be fair game, since it's likely to traverse through Sweden before reaching its final destination. So far, there's been nary a peep from Swedish media about the plan."

Comments

I thought the UK was on the road to 1984...

[Anonymous Coward]

...but it seems Sweden is speeeding towards the finishing line. Any other contendants we are not aware of?

Re:Not entirely accurate

[TheP4st]

o say that the national radio and IDG (how many Swedes are "geeky" enough to read IDG?) has created "quite a lot of fuss" is a bit of an exageration. As the majority of the Swedish population basically rely on two sources for their news, the two national tabloids Aftonbladet and Expressen, which unfortunately are pretty much the only two media channels capable of creating a fuss among the general populace. Then again if Aftonbladet and Expressen were to report on this chances are good that the majority would act like they always do, baah like the flock of sheep they are and quickly focus on more important issues like the Italian Goth couple that had sex in a Confession both (a article prominently featured on the frontpage of todays online edition of Expressen) or the latest Docu-soap gossip.

Good morning Sweden!

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