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The lawyer Robin Lööf has reported the Swedish mass surveillance law to the European Commission.

From TheLocal.se:

Lawyer Robin Lööf believes the law — which allows the National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets Radioanstalt - FRA) to intercept all calls, emails and phone text messages crossing Swedish borders — to be in clear breach of fundamental rights governing the movement of goods and services in the European Union.

Lööf told Sweriges Radio that if a lawyer who happened to be in another EU country wanted to represent someone in Sweden, then their communication could no longer be considered confidential.

It will be interesting to see how the commission acts on this complaint…

Others writing in english about this here, here and here.