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Sweden Plans to Wiretap Its Citizens
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by Jordan Yerman | March 8, 2007 at 12:22 pm
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Ooh. Not good. When a government says it wants such sweeping powers and then says it will use those powers judiciously, I always think back to the bit about "sweeping powers". Putting computer-enabled omniscience in the hands of fallible, fallible people is a recipe for disaster, as we've been seeing in the USA.
Sweden's government presented a contentious plan Thursday to allow a defense intelligence agency to monitor - without a court order - e-mail traffic and phone calls crossing the nation's borders.The government insists only a fraction of the electronic communications will be affected, but critics worry the program, designed to combat terrorism and other threats to national security, is too far-reaching.
Their concerns resemble criticism of a U.S. surveillance program launched in 2001 that monitors international phone calls and e-mails to or from the United States involving people suspected by the government of having terrorist links.
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at 12:49 on March 8th, 2007
Sweden already has some fairly sweeping powers, but this decision, should it go through, will no doubt be used by other countries to augment their own arguments for surveillance without probable cause. Surveillance in countries other than the US and the UK doesn't get nearly the attention from the tech press or the general press that the subject deserves. Good work.