February 15, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Försvarets_radioanstalt":
Business & Money: 27 Dec 11
Dozens of Swedes, including staff at government agencies and telecoms giant Ericsson, had their personal data exposed after a breach at US-based security company, reportedly carried out by activist hacking group Anonymous.
READ »
Politics: 8 Dec 11
Swedish law enforcement agencies should have access to signals intelligence gathered by the National Defence Radio Establishment to help combat terrorism, the ministry of justice proposed on Thursday.
READ »
Science & Technology: 12 Oct 11
Sweden's main signals intelligence agency is set to receive additional funding to improve its ability to monitor traffic generated by smartphone and tablet computer apps.
READ »
Politics: 14 Dec 10
A leading Social Democrat has proposed restoring the ability of Swedish security service Säpo to request signals intelligence in order to make it easier to follow terrorist groups.
READ »
Politics: 6 Dec 10
Morgan Johansson, the Social Democrat chair of the parliamentary justice committee, has demanded clarification on alleged informal intelligence contacts between the Swedish government and the US authorities.
READ »
Science & Technology: 16 Aug 10
Julian Assange, the Australian founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has praised Swedish legislation protecting the freedom of the press in a series of online chats with Swedish readers on Monday.
READ »
National: 4 Feb 10
The Russian military is suspected of having dumped chemical weapons and radioactive waste off the Swedish island of Gotland in the beginning of the 1990s.
READ »
Science & Technology: 4 Nov 09
A cyber attack knocked out the website of a Swedish intelligence agency on Monday, just days after several Swedish media outlets and the police were hit by similar attacks.
READ »
Politics: 14 Oct 09
An amended version of Sweden's controversial new signals intelligence law was passed in the Riksdag on Wednesday, with 158 members voting in favour and 153 against, while one member abstained from voting.
READ »
Science & Technology: 9 Jul 09
Internet users looking to remain anonymous when surfing the web are eagerly awaiting the expected weekend launch of Ipredator, a new service from the developers of The Pirate Bay.
READ »
National: 18 May 09
A Swedish surveillance ship operating near Russian territorial waters off Kaliningrad in the Baltic Sea has saved two Russian fisherman from drowning.
READ »
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 »
Politics: 16 Feb 09
A high-ranking Moderate Party politician and former defence minister has resigned from his post as head of Sweden’s intelligence oversight agency in protest against the country’s controversial wiretapping law.
READ »
Politics: 13 Feb 09
A lawyers’ organization from Norway has submitted a petition supporting a case pending in the European Court of Human Rights which challenges Sweden’s controversial wiretapping law.
READ »
Politics: 26 Sep 08
Sweden’s centre-right Alliance government announced a new version of the country’s controversial surveillance law on Thursday, claiming it had succeeded in making changes to the measure which satisfy critics of the original bill.
READ »
Politics: 25 Sep 08
A proposal to introduce a special court to decide when Sweden can monitor cross-border communications traffic is expected to help unify the governing parties around a new version of the country’s controversial surveillance law.
READ »
Politics: 23 Sep 08
Sveriges Television (SVT) has issued a public apology for a “misleading” report on comments made by foreign minister Carl Bildt about Sweden’s intelligence services.
READ »
Politics: 16 Sep 08
Several hundred demonstrators marched from Sergels Torg in central Stockholm to the steps of the Riksdag on Tuesday to protest Sweden’s surveillance law.
READ »
Politics: 15 Sep 08
As Sweden prepares for renewed debate of the controversial surveillance bill, new details have emerged about the strong-arm tactics employed by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to ensure the bill passed an initial Riksdag vote in June.
READ »
Politics: 21 Aug 08
Signals intelligence agency FRA should not be permitted to eavesdrop on Swedish citizens at least until the legal implications have been fully examined, according to a new proposal from the Centre Party
READ »
National: 13 Aug 08
A lawyer at the European University Institute in Florence has reported Sweden's new surveillance law to the European Commission.
READ »
Politics: 4 Aug 08
A group of 14 noteworthy local Moderate Party politicians are demanding a review of Sweden’s surveillance law
READ »
Analysis & Opinion: 30 Jul 08
In explaining the importance of Sweden's new surveillance law, Minister of Defence Sten Tolgfors argues that signals intelligence activities on cable-bound communications is no greater an invasion of privacy than monitoring the airwaves.
READ »
National: 28 Jul 08
The National Defence Radio Establishment, FRA (Försvarets radioanstalt), has filed a complaint with Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern – JK) against a blogger for publishing a classified document from the agency.
READ »
National: 23 Jul 08
Sweden’s National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets radioanstalt – FRA) prevented a political murder and revealed that Soviet mock attacks were in fact “prank flights”.
READ »
National: 7 Jul 08
The head of Sweden's armed forces has said the heated debate about the country's new surveillance law is 'unfortunate'.
READ »
National: 3 Jul 08
Despite the six million protest emails sent to Sweden’s parliament, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt doesn’t think the controversial surveillance law needs to be changed.
READ »
National: 1 Jul 08
Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice has launch an investigation into the leaking of a classified document by an employee of the National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets Radioanstalt - FRA).
READ »
Politics: 30 Jun 08
Swedish members of parliament had received a total of almost half a million protest emails by Sunday evening from members of the public unhappy with a divisive new eavesdropping law.
READ »
Politics: 18 Jun 08
After several hours' delay, a controversial signal surveillance bill will be put to the vote on Wednesday evening.
READ »
Politics: 18 Jun 08
Protesters assembled outside the Swedish parliament on Wednesday morning to voice their dissatisfaction with a proposed new surveillance law, a revised version of which is expected to be completed later in the day.
READ »
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 »
Society: 17 Jun 08
Sweden's Centre Party is meeting on Tuesday morning for eleventh hour deliberations ahead of Wednesday morning's parliamentary vote on the government's far-reaching surveillance bill.
READ »
Politics: 17 Jun 08
Sweden's governing centre-right parties are expected to gain the majority of votes needed to pass a deeply controversial surveillance law.
READ »
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 »
Analysis & Opinion: 13 Jun 08
David Landes takes a look at what Sweden's papers have to say about the proposed surveillance law ahead of next week's Riksdag vote.
READ »
National: 13 Jun 08
As the vote on Sweden’s controversial surveillance proposal nears, the voices of political party youth wings and bloggers are rising up in a chorus of opposition.
READ »
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 »
Analysis & Opinion: 10 Jun 08
With just a week to go before the Swedish parliament is expected to pass a controversial wiretapping law, Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge urges people to do all they can to block the legislation.
READ »
Politics: 30 May 07
Google's leading privacy expert has alleged that Sweden's proposed wiretapping legislation is more befitting of a totalitarian regime than a western democracy.
READ »
National: 26 May 07
Recently declassified documents show that a Swedish plane shot down by the Soviet Union in 1952 was seeking out potential bomb targets in the former USSR.
READ »
Politics: 9 Mar 07
Deputy prime minister Maud Olofsson has backed defence minister Mikael Odenberg's controversial surveillance bill. Sweden has tapped phones for decades, but without legal safeguards, she says.
READ »
Politics: 9 Feb 07
Defence minister Mikael Odenberg can continue working on his bugging proposal after gaining crucial support from the Legislative Council.
READ »
Politics: 24 Jan 07
Defence minister Mikael Odenberg is pressing on with plans to extend the powers of the National Defence Radio Establishment, best known for its work during the Cold War.
READ »

As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
|
|

fin
adjective
Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.
More news from Germany at thelocal.de
More news from Switzerland at thelocal.ch
More news from France at thelocal.fr
More news from Norway at thelocal.no
Play Poker online at Pokerlistings.com
Sweden – Up North, Down to Earth is a book about Sweden today. A country of natural beauty and open space, and a society focused on equality, human rights and sustainability. Meet regular and astonishing Swedes, supercars and indie rock bands, vampires and royalties.
Buy your copy of Sweden – Up North, Down to Earth from Sweden Bookshop
Latest news about gambling laws and online gambling sites in Sweden
News provided by GamingZion: Your global online gambling directory
Register now for:
> Free use of noticeboard
> Special discounts
> Weekly news roundup
> Unlimited use of discuss
521 jobs available
209 new jobs this week
0 new jobs today