Since May, the big issue in the Swedish blogosphere has been the wiretapping legacy (FRA-lagen), that was passed by the Swedish pariament at 9.21 PM on June 18th, 2008. This was right before the parliament takes it’s summer break, and the law was actually passed during the first Swedish match in this summer’s footbal world championships. Still, the next morning, wiretapping was the subject on the vast marjority of Swedish blogs. This tuesday, the 16th of September, the parliament gathered again, and as the members of parliament gathered they where reminded of their decission from June. The debate never died, and is bigger than ever, even though the government has done just about everything to avoid the issue.
This film explains what’s going on. It’s over 20 minutes long, but well worth viewing:
http://www.wiretappingsweden.com/ or
http://vimeo.com/1758256?pg=embed&sec=1758256
Unfortunately, very few Swedish bloggers seem to write about the wiretapping legacy in English, and there is very few English news articles about it as well. I’ve found a few here and will be happy to list any more if you add a link to them using the comment feature below.
Blogs
- Patrik Fältström: Sweden Wiretap Bill
- Somebody who’s mad as all hell
- My own attempt from June 16
- IT & politics: Swedish wiretapping war
- Sweden’s Wiretapping Law Heads to the European Court of Human Rights
- ENDitorial: Wiretapping – The Swedish Way
- FRA and the end of the world as we know it
News articles
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Nice uplink. Thanks. I’m about to read the articles and blogs at once.
I was so happy when I saw you writing about it in English. And you are right. The whole affair is much too big to remain an all Swedish affair. I’m heading over to the Electronic Frontiers Foundation. I just know they must have more articles on this, that might be worth reading.
Correct, this issue should be lifted to an international level. Any government would love to have this sort of control over its citizens. And Swedish authorities will /as told by the foreign minister Carl Bildt) exchange this information with other countries. Any one communicating with Sweden will be supervised by Swedish military intelligence service http://www.fra.se/english.shtml … Using a technique that is so inefficient for its purpose that any one with the slightest propensity to believe in conspiracy theories would say that this is just a way for the government to register every single citizen (and visitor) in Sweden.
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