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Sweden Doubles Down on Data Retention Surveillance

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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, @03:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:45PM (#567855)

    If this passes, say goodbye to all the Swedish VPN privacy services out there, including ipredator.se.