July 02, 2008
Sweden’s E-Mail Eavesdropping Law Causes Online Uproar
Over 6.6 million e-mails have flooded the inboxes of Swedish lawmakers who recently passed what has been called "the most far-reaching eavesdropping plan in
Expressen, a Swedish tabloid newspaper, is responsible for creating the email script that has been sent 6.6 million times to the 143 lawmakers that voted ‘yes’ to the FRA law.
The Swedish Government, planning to make the law affective in January 2009, has been faced with an online protest against the legislation. Those for the legislation claim that there is no civil liberties being violated and that the law has been created as a security measure against attacks by tech-savvy terrorists.
The FRA law, passed two weeks ago, will allow
As one blogger put it, “The surveillance and information gathering will become the [Swedish]national standard…Privacy will be a historical artifact.
Posted by Buzz Webster at July 2, 2008 04:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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