IP: New Swedish law makes most of the Internet illegal

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:51:12 +0200
From: Jacob Palme <jpalme () dsv su se>
Subject: New Swedish law makes most of the Internet illegal

A new Swedish law which makes most of the Internet illegal
in Sweden took effect yesterday. The law is named personal
information handling law. It makes much of the publication
of information about individual persons on the Internet
illegal, such as criticism of named persons, publication of
lists of references in scientific papers or the sending of
e-mail messages outside of Europe.

More about the new law at URL
   http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/society/personal-register-law.html

(note: The Swedish government will probably not use the law
to stop Internet. This law and other laws like it have made
me understand that laws are not meant to be obeyed.)

Question: All other EU countries are to enact similar laws.
Have other countries interpreted the EU directive in the
same way, and developed laws which would make most of the
Internet illegal?
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Jacob Palme <jpalme () dsv su se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme