Wire Tapping-Sweden ...Then ... ( Archived) (16)

Sweden will enact their wiretapping law, (passed in Jun. 08) in Jan. 09, giving them (FRA) the right to intercept any and all communications in and out of Sweden, emails, phone calls, internet traffic, you name it they can keep an eye on your emails, banking, websites you visit. All ISP providers are required to send all network traffic records to the state for analysis, including any traffic that merely passes through Sweden, routed through. Because of how the internet works, a great deal of traffic from other countries is routed through that country at any given time as it is in any country.

Of course I am not Swedish, so it's information I gleaned off the www. Perhaps a Swede could verify if it's true?

Hoiw do you feel about the insurgence of government, not just in Sweden but also in other countries where government is putting the clamps on internet traffic. Is freedom of speech become a thing of the past?

This is nothing new and is probably only because of possible terrorist threats.

I don't think anyone would find my email that interesting.

Another thought occurs to me that much can be gleaned about people from forums such as this. So it always comes back to, if you have nothing to hide then it's just an unfortunate side effect of the times we live in.

Oh boy!

You mean like this?


"AT&T has been named a defendant in a class action lawsuit that claims the telecommunications company illegally cooperated with the National Security Agency's secret eavesdropping program.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in San Francisco's federal district court, charges that AT&T has opened its telecommunications facilities up to the NSA and continues to "to assist the government in its secret surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans."

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed the suit, says AT&T's alleged cooperation violates free speech and privacy rights found in the U.S. Constitution and also contravenes federal wiretapping law, which prohibits electronic surveillance "except as authorized by statute."

Kevin Bankston, an EFF staff attorney, said he anticipates that the Bush administration will intervene in the case on behalf of AT&T. "We are definitely going to have a fight with the government and AT&T," he said.

AT&T said Tuesday that it needed to review the complaint before it could respond. But AT&T spokesman Dave Pacholczyk told CNET News.com last week in response to a query about NSA cooperation: "We don't comment on matters of national security."

A Los Angeles Times article dated Dec. 26 quoted an unnamed source as saying the NSA has a "direct hookup" into an AT&T database that stores information about all domestic phone calls, including how long they lasted.

If the Bush administration does intervene, EFF could have a formidable hurdle to overcome: the so-called "state secrets" doctrine. "


That's from back around 2006. If memory serves one small telco told the NSA to get stuffed(wish I remembered their name),

and it was hardware tech at one of the major telcos that blew the whistle.

They weren't just monitoriing traffic, he(the hardware tech) helped install hardware that was capturing ALL traffic through their system and storing it.
The NSA was then able to search the data just like any other database.

I agree....................

I wouldn't worry too much. Anything said on CS is out there for a lifetime. I don't see much difference personally.

I'm just concerned if Barak becomes president, I might be come a political prisoner.

How funny....

Once there was a book written about man going to the moon....and it was called science fiction.....

then there was also the one written about Big Brother taking over the world........and they called that science fiction too....

Guess the future is Now......

Welcome to the Big Brother era.....