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May 28, 2012
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The following articles have been tagged with "Surveillance_law":
Snoop agency to target smartphone apps
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.
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Man admits placing spy camera in girls' shower
Society: 24 Aug 11
A middle aged man has confessed to being the person who put up a camera that was discovered in a girls' shower at a sports club in western Sweden.
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Peeping tom camera found in girls’ showers
National: 21 Aug 11
A tiny spy camera disguised as a towel rack was discovered in a women’s shower room in western Sweden. Officials say video from the hidden device was ”for sexual purposes.”
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Online funerals ruled in breach of Swedish law
Society: 6 Apr 11
The Stockholm Cemetery Administration wanted to broadcast funerals online, but have run in to unexpected trouble – mounting a camera would be in breach of Swedish surveillance law.
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Introducing the Left
Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Left Party, bidding to assume power within the centre-left Red-Green coalition.
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Introducing the Social Democrats
Analysis & Opinion: 7 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Social Democrats, bidding to assume power at the head of the Red-Green coalition.
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Assange: Swedish press freedoms 'most proven'
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.
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Liberal MP: Legalize prostitution
Society: 8 May 10
Liberal Party member of parliament Camilla Lindberg has argued that Sweden should legalize prostitution and provide greater social security for practitioners of the "oldest profession".
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Opposition makes comeback in new poll
Politics: 17 May 09
The opposition has increased its lead over Sweden's Alliance government according to a new opinion poll by Sifo.
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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.
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Government unites around new FRA-law
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.
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Goverment getting closer to surveillance law compromise
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.
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Riksdag opening met with FRA-law protests
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.
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Swedish surveillance law 'breaks EU rules'
National: 13 Aug 08
A lawyer at the European University Institute in Florence has reported Sweden's new surveillance law to the European Commission.
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Moderate Party pols want to ditch FRA-law
Politics: 4 Aug 08
A group of 14 noteworthy local Moderate Party politicians are demanding a review of Sweden’s surveillance law
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Personal privacy can never be taken for granted
Analysis & Opinion: 30 Jul 08
Jessica Rosencrantz of the Moderate Party youth organization explains why she and others in the group disagree with their mother party's stance on Sweden's new surveillance law.
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Defence Minister: 'FRA doesn’t monitor individual Swedes'
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.
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Surveillance law vote ‘betrayed tenets of a democratic state’
Analysis & Opinion: 22 Jul 08
Bangladeshi refugee and writer Tasneem Khalil explains why the Riksdag's vote in favour of the surveillance law has him feeling let down by the country to which he fled to escape state-sanctioned domestic spying.
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Liberal Party FRA-law revolt widens
Politics: 18 Jul 08
A split has widened in the Liberal Party (Folkpartiet) which could lead to the scrapping of Sweden’s controversial surveillance law.
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Snoop law to be tried in European court
National: 15 Jul 08
The Swedish government will have to defend the new FRA surveillance law in front of the European Court of Human Rights in a case filed by an independent law organization.
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'Snoop law bad for Swedish business'
Analysis & Opinion: 10 Jul 08
Sweden's new surveillance law could prove disastrous for the country's highly regarded technology sector, write the CEOs of eight major IT and telecom companies.
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FRA chief admits to intelligence sharing
National: 10 Jul 08
The head of Sweden's embattled National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) has admitted to sharing sensitive information with other countries.
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Swedish snoop law targets Russia
National: 9 Jul 08
Sweden's new surveillance law will enable the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) to scan massive quantities of Russian computer and telecom data.
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Minister rejects opposition 'games' on snoop law
Politics: 8 Jul 08
Sweden's defence minister has rejected an invitation from the Social Democrats to negotiate about the country's controversial new surveillance law.
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Defence chief warns over snoop law debate
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'.
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Anti-surveillance demonstrators hold Stockholm rally
Society: 3 Jul 08
A large crowd gathered in central Stockholm on Thursday afternoon to demonstrate against Sweden's controversial new surveillance law.
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Reinfeldt: critics 'don't understand' snoop law
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.
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Swedish firm: 'New law will drive businesses out of the country'
Analysis & Opinion: 30 Jun 08
Sweden's controversial new surveillance law has put the state on a collision course with innovative new businesses, argues Roger Grönberg, CEO of Momail.
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Snoop law politicians in email storm
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.
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Snoop agency head: 'They should stand up for us'
Politics: 28 Jun 08
The director of the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA), Ingvar Åkesson is disappointed at the level of government support.
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More Swedes against surveillance law
National: 27 Jun 08
Nearly half of all Swedes are against the wiretapping law, while just over one-third support it, according to a new survey.
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Sahlin would 'tear up' snoop law if elected
Politics: 25 Jun 08
Social Democratic party leader Mona Sahlin is ready to shred Sweden’s controversial surveillance law if she ends up in government after the 2010 parliamentary elections.
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Youth leader may resign over snoop law
Politics: 23 Jun 08
The head of the Moderate Party’s youth organization, Niklas Wykman, has threatened in his blog to leave the party if it doesn’t change its position with regard to Sweden's new surveillance law.
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'Yes' to surveillance law
Politics: 18 Jun 08
Swedish lawmakers came down in favour of a fiercely contested surveillance bill in a vote at the Riksdag on Wednesday evening.
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Surveillance protesters gather outside Riksdag
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.
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'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.
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Sigfrid defies party over surveillance
Politics: 17 Jun 08
Moderate Party member of parliament Karl Sigfrid has said he will ignore the party whip and vote against the government's proposed surveillance law.
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Dissenters put snoop vote on knife edge
Politics: 17 Jun 08
Four centre-right members of parliament, the exact number needed to block Sweden's hotly debated new surveillance law, have not yet committed to voting in favour of the bill.
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Party whips to force through snoop law
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.
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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.
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Swedish press slams proposed surveillance law
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.
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Opposition to proposed surveillance law mounts
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.
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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.
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New tools needed to 'preempt national security threats'
Analysis & Opinion: 10 Jun 08
The Centre Party's Staffan Danielsson, who sits on the Riksdag's Committee on Defence, explains why he supports Sweden's controversial new surveillance legislation.
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