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posted by takyon on Thursday September 14 2017, @11:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-eye-of-sauron dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:08PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:08PM (#567834)

    Putin on Snowden [reuters.com]

  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:16PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:16PM (#567840)

    Which is all from the perspective that Snowden was/is an American, from the comments Putin gave we can probably conclude that his opinions had been somewhat different if Snowden has been a Russian citizen and had released information about the FSB intelligence gathering operations.

    ... he agreed that U.S. surveillance had become too intrusive, while praising his own country’s intelligence services for operating within the law.

    “Trying to spy on your allies, if you really consider them allies and not vassals, is just indecent,” said Putin. “It undermines trust, and in the end damages your own national security.”

    Snowden has used social media to criticize the Russian authorities over a law obliging communications companies to store phone calls and Internet activity for six months. The Russian authorities have not commented on those remarks.

    The first and second quotes are just just hilarious. The second one then probably says more about how Russia views their neighbors, ie as vassals. The third quote just brings it all home.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @09:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @09:59PM (#568104)

      "If he had been Boris Snowden from Russia and he had worked at FSB or SVR the Russians would have hated him for doing what he did," you wrote. Putin said of Snowden, "He shouldn’t have done it (leaked secrets). My view is that what he did was wrong."