Snooping law safeguards delayed in Sweden

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

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 FRA law permits surveillance of wireless and cable communications across Sweden by the National Defence Radio 
Establishment.
Critics fear that the law’s power to freely snoop on people not suspected of any crime breaks the European Convention 
on Human Rights."

Link:
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?nyheter=1&ProgramID=2054&artikel=2420453

So-called FRA law (according to Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment - FRA, Försvarets radioanstalt) has been 
discussed on the list in July and earlier.

Juha-Matti

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