Re: Snooping law safeguards delayed in Sweden

[Martin Wehlou <listbox () wehlou com>]

On 7 Nov 2008, at 13:22, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:

> There is an English language report about the state of the FRA law:
>
> "A controversial surveillance law comes into force at the start of  
> next year. But the government has now announced that 15 amendments,
> designed to protect individuals’ privacy, will not be included until  
> the Spring of 2009.

The "consensus" seems to be that those amendmends don't really mean  
much. Most politicians that opposed the law, though, pronounced  
themselves satisfied, so the amendmends gave them a face-saving out.  
In short, the law stands with minor ineffectual modifications and  
things don't look too good for privacy.

The blogosphere got their 15 minutes of fame on this issue, but  
nothing really changed.

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