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[redigera] Swedish Parliament passed law allowing mass surveillance

Swedish lawmakers voted late on Wednesday, June 18, in favour of a controversial bill allowing all emails and phone calls to be monitored by Försvarets Radioanstalt, FRA, or the National Defence Radio in the name of national security.^[1][2](Swedish)^[3](English)

The law specifies that only traffic that passes the national border will be under surveillance, but due to the nature of the Internet that includes almost all communications and it is impossible to predict whether a certain connection will pass the border or not.

[redigera] International press

The bill has been given international press via The Register^[4], Slashdot^[5], and Slashdot had a piece on the Outrage sparked by the bill^[6], and Electronic Frontier Foundation has also written about the bill^[7]. There was a piece in The Local on the protests outside the Parliament the day of the vote^[8].

[redigera] References

1. ↑ http://www.thelocal.se/12534/20080618/
2. ↑ http://www.riksdagen.se/webbnav/?nid=3322&rm=2007/08&bet=FöU15
3. ↑ http://www.riksdagen.se/templates/R_PageExtended____16402.aspx
4. ↑ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/04/sweden_wiretap_bill/
5. ↑ http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/05/037201
6. ↑ http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/17/0126243
7. ↑ http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/06/sweden-and-borders-surveillance-state
8. ↑ http://www.thelocal.se/12508/20080618/