According to a leaked law proposal, which has been obtained by the Swedish Internet provider Bahnhof, the Swedish government is doubling down on the court-banned and hated data retention surveillance. As a Western first, they're also planning to introduce VPN surveillance, taking a page out of Russia's and China's oppression playbooks, and are mandating that the Internet be built not to optimize speed and throughput, but to optimize governmental surveillance.
takyon: A Privacy International report has found that 21 EU member states (including Sweden) have data retention legislation that may not comply with Court of Justice of the European Union judgments. Also at TechCrunch.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @11:47AM (1 child)
mullvad is one of the best vpns out there and they're going to get fucked if this becomes law.
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Thursday September 14 2017, @06:30PM
This is one of the sources for the linked article above.
From: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bahnhof.se%2Fpress%2Fpress-releases%2F2017%2F08%2F28%2Fbahnhof-avslojar-planer-pa-dramatiskt-okad-datalagring&edit-text= [google.com]
It now includes-
Note quite the same thing as VPNs then. Would need better sources to be sure if that's really what they mean, VPNs, or if they're referring to something else. A comment on the article says it might mean prepaid mobile cards.