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Rail service's hidden cameras 'illegal': agency

National: 20 Dec 11
Sweden's national rail service, SJ, has been slammed by the Data Inspection Board after it was discovered the company was filming staff with hidden cameras to stop widespread pilfering on trains. READ »

Paedophile site probed for privacy violations

National: 7 Nov 11
A new website set up by a Swede with ties to neo-Nazi groups and featuring the names and contact information of dozens of convicted child sex offenders has been reported for data privacy violations. READ »

Hooligans should report to the police: Riksdag

Politics: 22 Jun 11
On Wednesday the Riksdag voted in favour of the Social Democrats’ proposal that known hooligans should report to authorities prior to major sporting events. READ »

Hooligans strike in pre-game brawl

Sport: 12 Jun 11
At least five people were injured in the early hours of Sunday morning when fans of Stockholm’s Hammarby football club clashed with guests in a restaurant, a brawl that later took to the streets. READ »

Green light for Swedish ‘hooligan-register’

Sport: 31 May 11
Stockholm club Djurgården Football has received the approval needed from the Data Inspection Board (Datainspektionen) to start up a register of blacklisted supporters to keep them out of sports events. READ »

Hooligans should report to police - Social Democrats

Politics: 27 May 11
The Social Democrats want Sweden to implement new laws requiring known hooligans to report to the police during sports events before the start of the next football season. READ »

Hidden cameras catch cleaners looting Swedish trains

National: 4 May 11
A number of sticky-fingered cleaners were caught red handed stealing liquor, beer, and candy from the restaurant cars of Swedish trains following the installation of hidden surveillance cameras. READ »

Green light for Swedish rail operator's 'graffiti database'

Science & Technology: 18 Apr 11
Swedish rail operator SJ has been given clearance by the Swedish Data Inspection Board to open a "graffiti database" in order to assist police reports and damages claims. READ »

Half of young Swedes 'faceraped': survey

Science & Technology: 28 Jan 11
Half of Sweden's young people have endured a "facerape," or having their Facebook account hijacked by someone else who writes mean or "funny" things under the user's name, according to Sweden's online privacy watchdog on Friday. READ »

'Karolinska shares patient data illegally'

Science & Technology: 24 Jan 11
Stockholm’s Karolinska University Hospital has been criticised for its failure to address “serious” shortcomings in how it handles patient information. READ »

'Google should clear Swedish data': agency

Science & Technology: 30 Nov 10
Sweden's IT privacy watchdog has recommended Google remove data that it inadvertently captured from wireless networks in Sweden while it was taking photos for its Street View service. READ »

Sweden green lights 'fingerprint time clocks'

Business & Money: 17 Nov 10
Swedish employers have been authorised to use fingerprints to track worker’s job attendance following a review of the practice by the Data Inspection Board. READ »

Sweden to launch online access to medical files

Science & Technology: 11 Nov 10
Patients and medical professionals in Sweden will soon be able access electronic medical records online, a government health official announced this week. READ »

Most Swedes hit by internet crime: survey

Science & Technology: 8 Sep 10
More than half of all Swedes have been exposed to crime on the internet, a new survey published on Wednesday indicates. READ »

Companies responsible for social media content

Science & Technology: 5 Jul 10
Municipalities, public authorities and companies who use blogs, Facebook, and other social media tools have a responsibility for personal data published on the sites, a new report from the Data Inspection Board has concluded. READ »

Court slams laundry room surveillance

Society: 20 May 10
The appeals court has ruled that a municipal housing firm may not conduct computer surveillance of a communal laundry room in order to identify tenants that had neglected to tidy up after them. READ »

Firms under scrutiny over GPS spying

Science & Technology: 26 Feb 10
The Swedish Data Inspection Board has announced the launch of a project to review how companies and municipalities use GPS positioning technology to track their staff. READ »

Paedophile site reported for privacy violations

Society: 18 Jan 10
A website featuring personal information about Swedes convicted of sex crimes involving children has been reported to the police by Sweden's Data Inspection Board. READ »

Malmö gets thumbs up for text message pee charge

Society: 2 Sep 09
Sweden's Data Inspection Board has approved a new system of paying for public toilets using text messages in Malmö's famous Folkets Park. READ »

Defrocked pastor sues Christian dating site

Society: 4 Aug 09
A Church of Sweden minister has demanded compensation from a Christian dating site after he was stripped of his clerical collar for insulting a number of the site's female users. READ »

Booze monopoly faces privacy investigation

Society: 8 May 09
The Swedish Data Inspection Board has launched a probe into revelations that alcohol retail monopoly Systembolaget retains customer credit card details for up to ten years. READ »

Pastor to sue dating site over release of rude comments

Society: 22 Apr 09
A Christian dating website which released details about a Swedish pastor’s offensive comments has been accused of violated the country’s data privacy laws. READ »

Sex offender website reported to police

Society: 18 Mar 09
Sweden’s Data Inspection Board has filed a complaint with the police about a website which posts information about sex offenders run by the Original Gangsters criminal gang. READ »

Agencies slam FRA-law revisions

National: 24 Feb 09
Changes to Sweden’s wiretapping law have been met with stinging criticism in a new round of comments by two government agencies. READ »

Police to investigate Swedish sex offender website

National: 17 Feb 09
Following a slew of protests from the general public, Sweden's Data Inspection Board has reported a website that names and shames convicted sex offenders, to the police. READ »

Sex offender website under investigation

National: 15 Dec 08
Swedish authorities are investigating a website for possible violations of the country’s privacy laws after it published the names, personal identity numbers, addresses, of several convicted sex offenders. READ »

Swedish court to rule on school lunch fingerprinting

Education: 20 Oct 08
Hungry students at a school in Västerbotten in northern Sweden must give a fingerprint in order to eat in the school’s cafeteria, a practice which bothers data privacy officials seeking to ban the measure. READ »

Sahlin calls for privacy ombudsman

Politics: 3 Oct 08
The Social Democrats want to create an ombudsman to help protect individuals’ privacy in Sweden, party leader Mona Sahlin told Sveriges Radio. READ »

Sweden condemns surveillance in schools

Education: 2 Oct 08
Sweden’s Data Inspection Board (Datainspektionen – DI) has demanded that seven schools change their use of surveillance cameras in a decision it hopes will set a precedent for schools across the country. READ »

Temperance society in opinions registration scandal

Society: 7 Aug 08
Swedish temperance society IOGT-NTO has landed in hot water with evangelists after admitting to breaking the law when registering the religious convictions of its members. READ »

Swedish schoolkids under surveillance

Education: 7 Aug 08
The number of Swedish schools using security cameras to keep an eye on their pupils has skyrocketed in recent years. READ »

Bugged man reports FRA to Sweden's Chancellor of Justice

National: 25 Jul 08
Sweden's National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) has been reported to the Chancellor of Justice by one of those on a classified list of people bugged in the 1990s for doing business with Russia. READ »

State agency 'violated freedom of religion'

National: 15 Jul 08
The head of Sweden’s Evangelical Free Church has slammed the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) upon learning that the agency spied on Word of Life pastor Ulf Ekman (left) in the 1990s. READ »

Sweden rejects fat child data registry

Society: 1 Jul 08
A nationwide obesity register planed by Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) has been rejected by the Data Inspection Board due to privacy concerns. READ »

Spying bosses sack translators

Science & Technology: 23 Jun 08
Two translators have been fired by their employer in western Sweden after management at the firm secretly spied on the employees' private internet conversations. READ »

Snoop law vote to go ahead

Politics: 18 Jun 08
After several hours' delay, a controversial signal surveillance bill will be put to the vote on Wednesday evening. READ »

'Orwellian law must be stopped'

Analysis & Opinion: 18 Jun 08
Despite some cosmetic changes, Sweden's proposed surveillance law is still a monster, writes Pär Ström from the independent New Welfare Foundation. READ »

Critics force snoop law postponement

Politics: 18 Jun 08
Swedish lawmakers have agreed to postpone plans for the passing into law of a controversial surveillance bill following an emotional debate in the Riksdag on Tuesday evening. READ »

FRA accused of illegal surveillance

National: 14 Jun 08
Sweden's National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) has been accused of illegally storing the information from over 100 Russians that it had been monitoring in the 1990s. READ »

Sweden sets sights on new snoop law

Analysis & Opinion: 11 Jun 08
As Sweden's parliament prepares to pass a controversial new surveillance law, Faisal Enayat Khan takes a closer look at the development of a far-reaching tapping scheme. READ »

Police seek to tweak criminal register

National: 8 May 08
The Swedish Data Inspection Board is to team up with the National Police Board in a bid to improve the effectiveness of the police's criminal register. READ »

Liberal Party addresses treatment of personal data

Politics: 16 Apr 08
Sweden’s Liberal Party (Folkpartiet) wants to make it easier to bring indictments for internet harassment and overhaul Sweden's system for handling personal information. READ »

Agency to examine debt among Swedish children

Business & Money: 20 Feb 08
As fears mount about debt among Swedish children, a Data Inspection Board project hopes to shed more light on the problem. READ »

Trash spies barred from taking digital photos

Society: 11 Dec 07
Spies employed by a major recycling company to catch litter bugs have been told to leave their digital cameras at home. READ »

Karolinska Hospital slammed for lax patient secrecy

Society: 18 Nov 07
Poor security procedures at one of Sweden's top teaching hospitals have led to insufficient control over who accesses patients' medical records. READ »

Bureaucrats slam proposed piracy law

Science & Technology: 4 Oct 07
The Swedish Data Inspection Board has given the thumbs down to government proposals to crack down on internet piracy. READ »

Pupils 'should not be forced to give fingerprints'

National: 25 Aug 07
Forcing schoolchildren to give fingerprints in order to get their lunches should be forbidden, the Swedish Data Inspection Board has said. READ »

'Report-a-paedophile' website ruled illegal

Science & Technology: 4 May 07
A website on which children can expose suspected online paedophiles has been ruled illegal by the Swedish Data Inspection Board. READ »

Internet libel cases soar

Society: 4 Dec 06
The number of cases of libel on the internet reported to the Swedish Data Inspection Board has soared from four in 2000 to 157 in 2005 - but that is only a fraction of the total number of complaints received. READ »

New site makes checking friends' income easy

National: 24 Nov 06
A website has been launched in Sweden that makes it possible to find out your neighbour's income at the touch of a button. It's perfectly legal, but the data protection authorities aren't happy. READ »

Trash spies taken off duty

Society: 17 Nov 06
Former police officers who have been monitoring recycling stations to track illegal dumping have been taken off duty after claims that the 'spying' breaks data protection laws. READ »

Sweden's garbage spies breaking data laws

National: 15 Oct 06
They were candidates for Sweden's ultimate busybodies - but 'garbage spies' who photograph people who incorrectly recycle their rubbish have been told that they are breaking the law. READ »

Behave - your boss is watching

Society: 13 Jan 06
Half of Swedish employers monitor their employees' surfing habits, but very few are checking to stop their workers slacking. Most are only monitoring for use of "unethical" websites. READ »

Green light to chase file-sharers

National: 13 Oct 05
The film and music industries are allowed to collect information about people sharing copyrighted material over the internet, Sweden's regulator says. READ »

Swedish police reported for "database of people's views"

National: 12 Jul 05
Racism, raves, satanism and vegan - just some of the categories in a database used by the police to follow up crimes. Now the Data Inspection Board will follow up allegations that the categories can be linked to individuals - which is illegal. READ »

Anti-piracy group broke Swedish data laws

National: 10 Jun 05
To the amusement of file-sharers everywhere, Sweden's anti-piracy group is found to have broken the country's personal data act. But they won't have long to savour the irony - now the group is applying for an exemption from the act. READ »

200 Swedish file-sharers reported to the police

National: 4 Jun 05
Sweden's file-sharing war gets nastier. The country's anti-piracy group, Antipiratbyrån, starts reporting suspects directly to the police without warning - and a file sharing site relaunches with faster technology and in ten languages. READ »

Swedish anti-piracy enemies "bury the hatchet"

National: 4 Apr 05
The public feud between Sweden's anti-piracy group, Antipiratbyrån, and internet service provider Bahnhof has fizzled out after both organisations agreed to stop hassling each other. But smaller internet companies say it's impossible for them to check everything on their servers. READ »

Anti-piracy office accused of piracy

National: 23 Mar 05
An anti-piracy office infiltrator who exposed thousands of illegally downloaded films and games at internet company Bahnhof appears to be one of the main culprits. "We have evidence," says Jon Karlung, MD of Bahnhof. READ »

Sweden to introduce tougher download laws

National: 17 Mar 05
Sweden's justice minister Thomas Bodström proposes tighter laws to protect copyright owners but says that "teenagers downloading at home" are not the main target". Meanwhile, the controversial Anti-piracy office is reported to the authorities by more people than it is catching. READ »

Housing company's blacklist "illegal"

National: 17 Feb 05
Wrong colour? Dodgy nationality? Beaten by your boyfriend? If you live in Malmö in an MKB flat, the chances are your landlord has a dossier on you. "Illegal" says the Data Inspection Board, but MKB bosses could still escape prosecution. READ »

"Thousands blacklisted" in Malmö property scandal

National: 25 Jan 05
'Black with a French accent', 'Bosnian', 'has a brother who's a real troublemaker', 'has been beaten by her husband' - just some of the reasons why Malmö property company MKB has allegedly stopped thousands of tenants from hiring an apartment. READ »

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