Swedish Citizens Will Get All Their Phone Calls and e-mail Traffic Wiretapped

[lxskllr]

The Swedish citizens will get all their phone calls and e-mail traffic wiretapped in real time not just by the Swedish NSA branch, but also by police, customs, the tax authority, and others. These plans were revealed today by the Ny Teknik magazine, sending shockwaves among civil rights activists. This follows a previous law change that gave the Swedish NSA branch, the FRA, realtime access to all Internet traffic that crossed the country borders – effectively wiretapping everybody warrantlessly all the time.

Circumventing the entire legislative process and every democratic shred of oversight, the Swedish Police are demanding voluntary agreements from telecom operators to give the Police and other Swedish authorities direct and real-time access to phone call data, mail traffic, and much more. This is not just the slippery slope into an Orwellian society that civil rights activists have warned about: this is a slippery precipice.

http://falkvinge.net/2013/11/19/swed...one-mail-more/

[Burnsey]

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

I heard this quote on NPR yesterday and it reminded me of the Patriot Act....went home and took a shower....

[Thunder_Snus]

For a place that now has a "feminist" rating on movies and is trying to avoid calling people him or her in early levels of school i find it incredibly ironic they would have an NSA

[Snusdog]

Anybody want to go in with me on my new Swedish Carrier Pigeon company..........

Instead of minute plans....you get a set number of birds.........for a little extra you can upgrade from pigeons to parrots (its the same plan....just with voice mail :glee

[Frankie Reloaded]

(This is Russian version. In my country the slogan was: Beware! The enemy is listening. It is beneficial to remember some things never change.)

[lxskllr]

Anybody want to go in with me on my new Swedish Carrier Pigeon company..........

Instead of minute plans....you get a set number of birds.........for a little extra you can upgrade from pigeons to parrots (its the same plan....just with voice mail :glee

RoFL at the parrot plan :^D

All this government intrusion is really distressing, mostly because it's hard to get anyone to care. People forget history, and assume nothing bad can happen in mostly good countries. All countries are mostly good countries until they aren't. The erosion of rights in mostly good countries is also insidious. You don't get the warning of hordes pouring over the border. Things just get shittier a little bit at a time, until you have neighbors disappearing, and you're careful about what you say, and to who.

Some people have woken up, and there's noise coming from Congress, but my concern is trivial changes will get made to placate the few that care, but there will be no real change. See the criminal Feinstein for an example. I'm against the death penalty, but these elected officials really push hard against that belief. I can't tolerate institutional violations of trust and rights, and I might not campaign for them if they were tried, and convicted of treason...