Anyone speak Swedish? Pirate has a posting..

[RichardE]

A good old friendly site of ours that I'm sure some of us use frequently has a message posted in swedish... (I'm assuming..)

Can anyone translate it?

*site hint* Pirate! here comes the bay! (not sure if I am allowed to link directly...)

 

[mugs]

Based on a pretty poor translation of the page that is being linked to: http://www.tranexp.com:2000/In...&text=&from=swe&to=eng
It appears that Sweden is in the process of passing a law that has something to do with monitoring electronic communications.

 

[TruePaige]

It's very similar to the police state laws of the uk. The UK is in the process of forming a massive database to track all electronic communications (phone calls, e-mails, etc..)

 

[thecrecarc]

Better translation http://translate.google.com/tr...v&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

 

[0roo0roo]

i wondered about that as well..

 

[Sunner]

The note on the front page is a quote that reads roughly:

The proposal [...] is an infraction on integrity that is unprecedented in an international perspective. [...]
It is completely foreign to our form of government to give the government or the "Regeringskansliet" the authority to make the final decisions regarding the interception and monitoring of telecommunications.

I really don't know if there's an English word for "Regeringskansliet", I suspect most democracies have similar functions, only with different names

The whole system is an ECHELON-like system for intercepting communications that crosses the Swedish border.
Which is to say, it's not supposed to be used for domestic intelligence work.

 

[Carlis]

The state of Sweden is voting about passing a law that allows FRA (~ corresponding to NSA) to monitor mail traffic that passes the Swedish border. Officially they claim that the law is necessary to fight terrorism (as usual). Apparently, they are to be allowed to read all email regardless of whether the subject is suspected of any crime. Further, no other agency will monitor how this information is used, the FRA will do that themselves, and they *promise* not to miss use it. .

According to some sources with insight in intelligence work, the motive is to be able to trade information with other states. From what I understand, substantial amounts of Russian traffic passes through Sweden and can thus be bartered.

The law is very controversial and has been criticized both inside and outside Sweden. Apparently, Google says the will never place a server in Sweden if the law pases. Riksdagen (~the parliament) is voting 18/6.