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The Swedish wiretapping law explained

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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.

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I slutet av januari gjordes en av de större uppdateringarna av Googles riktlinjer för webbplatsägare, och det enligt mig intressantaste stycket kan få stor påverkan på hur webbplatser hanterar javascript-objekt som fäller ut mer text eller visar menyer först efter att man scrollar nedåt på sidan. Så har du en sajt som visar större delen av ett textobjekt först efter att användaren klickar på [fäll ut] eller [visa], så bör du nog läsa den här artikeln.

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  • drf

    Nice uplink. Thanks. I’m about to read the articles and blogs at once.

  • drf

    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.

  • 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.
    Hello Soviet #2!!

  • 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.
    Hello Soviet #2!!

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  • Thanks everyone for the great insight and post here.Its great when the poker and gaming world can share ideas and expirence with others and i will be making a contribution here as well.thanks