From: Martin Kragh (Martin.Kragh@hhs.se)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2008 - 05:13:56 EDT
The law which will allow far reaching surveillance and monitoring of the internet and mobile phone communications was passed last week in parliament. The civilian/military organization FRA will act on orders of the government, and monitor accordingly. See previous post for more information: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/OPE/archive/0806/0081.html I'm still thinking about the intentions of this new regulation. It was recently leaked that the FRA has spied on Swedish citizens working in Russia for the last 10 years. One was an employee at IKEA. The major security threat / geopolitical threat for Sweden is not Usama bin Laden, but has been for 200 years Russia, even though less so today obviously. Most likely, surveillance of people somehow affiliated to that region will be of interest to the FRA. As a matter of fact, many Russians will be subject to surveillance too, because Swedish internet operator Telia International controls a large share of Russia's IT-infrastructure, and with servers located in Sweden, it will be accessed by the FRA. It will be interesting to see how Russia will react (considering they have inefficient, but similar regulations already, this is not obvious). Kind regards Martin PS. The whole parliamentary process was a joke and is not worth repeating. _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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