"The government wants to introduce a system which would require all internet service provides to record and save all e-mails you send and receive, all websites you visit and other such personal information. Even if you're not suspected of having committed any crime."
New laws proposed by Sweden's government would require internet service providers to snoop on all of us, says the Pirate Party's Björn Lindh.
Swedish government minister Björn Rosengren once described Norway as "the last Soviet republic".
But new laws being introduced by Rosengren's party colleagues in the Social Democrats, giving the state an unprecendented right to snoop on its citizens, mean that Sweden is now perhaps more deserving of this epithet.
The government wants to introduce a system which would require all internet service provides to record and save all e-mails you send and receive, all websites you visit and other such personal information. Even if you're not suspected of having committed any crime.
The government says that the police only will have access to this database after a court order has been issued. But what guarantees are given that a hacker could not abuse the system and get all sorts of information stored in it about you?
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