Hello everyone…

I’ve been a bit quiet again, mostly because of what has been going on in Sweden currently.

As you might have heard, a legislation that more or less make mass surveillance of all Swedish citizens has been voted through in Sweden. All in the name of preventing terrorism (and we havent had a terrorist deed on Swedish soil for 100 years, not joking). The way that this was done is not very nice and the Swedish Government has not done it’s job to protect the integrity of the people.

In fact, the law is so badly written that it actually violates,

* Swedish constitution

* European constitution

* The UN’s declaration of human rights

No I’m not lying. This is actually happening in Sweden. And it is being done by the parties that has had liberty and integrity as their motto.

The agency that is going to enforce this on the Swedish population is the Radio Defense Agency (FRA, Försvarets Radioanstalt in swedish) and they are well known to ignore all laws that regulates integrity breaching activities. Furthermore, during the last month’s they have openly told media that they are already ignoring and breaking the Swedish constitution. A document that leaked recently also shows that they are actually storing traffic and data (that is, both the envelope and the letter in physical terms) of all Swedish internet traffic and they have been doing so for almost 10 years. This agency is also currently under investigation by the Swedish Security Police (hope thats the correct translation, in swedish SÄPO) for privacy breaches.

Still, this agency is going to be given the “responsibility” of monitoring all Swedish citizens for “suspicious activities” (read Terrorism, the universal “Go ahead”).

There has been a lot of reactions to this. Among other things more than 3000 people protested when the law was voted through and there haas been even more protests for a month now. A huge protest is also being planned for the 16th of September when the parliament opens again after summer vacations and people are organizing buses from all over Sweden to go to Stockholm and participate.

Incredible work has been done to wake up the opposition by several well known blogs and prominent people. There has been several new organisations formed that are trying to get the law removed before it is effective, among those are www.stoppafralagen.nu, www.svartmandag.se and www.frapedia.se. The Pirate Party is also pushing hard to remove the law before it goes into permanent legislation.

All is not yet lost though! We can still push the Parliament to tear up the law before it goes into effect! Polls show that over 61% of the population strongly disagrees and is against the law.

More posts coming in a short while which will detail which political parties that, in their current IT-infrastructure setup, already are being monitored by FRA (which in turn reports directly to the sitting government).

More links to information in english:

FRAPedia.se - More information in english
Oscar Swartz - Mayday Mayday! Internet Wall of China - around Sweden!
The Pirate Party - PRES RELEASE: Practically a coup!