FRA-law: Sweden sells intelligence to dictatorships

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The Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt, today confirmed in a documentary interview (Swedish link) that we are selling and buying intelligence data with dictatorships.

As you might have guessed the documentary was about the FRA-law and in part on how information gathered by the Radio Defense Agency is being or might be used.

It also discussed the methods used by the Government to push the Parliament into accepting the law and voting yes. How it was done can easiest be described as bullying. Individual MPs were threatened into voting yes, even by the Prime Minister himself.

This is starting to look less and less democratic for each report that becomes public… So maybe it isn’t such a weird thing that we deal surveillance data about our own citizens and our neighbours to dictators.