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Sweden doubles down on data retention surveillance

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2017-08-29 11:27:22
Digital Liberty

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.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/08/sweden-doubles-data-retention-surveillance-includes-vpn-surveillance-new-leaked-proposal/ [privateinternetaccess.com]


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