Swedish Regulator Orders Last "Hold-Out" ISP To Retain Customer Data 43
An anonymous reader writes Despite the death of the EU Data Retention Directive in April, and despite the country having taken six years to even begin to obey the ruling, the Swedish government, via its telecoms regulator, has forced ISPs to continue retaining customer data for law enforcement purposes. Now the last ISP retrenching on the issue has been told that it must comply with the edict or face a fine of five million krona ($680,000).
While providers all over Europe have rejoiced in not being obliged any longer to provide infrastructure to retain six months of data per customer, Sweden and the United Kingdom alone have insisted on retaining the ruling — particularly surprising in the case of Sweden, since it took six years to begin adhering to the Data Retention Directive after it was made law in 2006. Britain's Data Retention and Investigatory Powers bill, rushed through in July, actually widens the scope of the original EU order.
While providers all over Europe have rejoiced in not being obliged any longer to provide infrastructure to retain six months of data per customer, Sweden and the United Kingdom alone have insisted on retaining the ruling — particularly surprising in the case of Sweden, since it took six years to begin adhering to the Data Retention Directive after it was made law in 2006. Britain's Data Retention and Investigatory Powers bill, rushed through in July, actually widens the scope of the original EU order.
You forgot the Netherlands (Score:5, Informative)
The Netherlands also has yet to reply to the court ruling which found data retention violates the ECHR
Sweden and UK (Score:2)
Funny combination.
Biggest ass-lickers of the United States.
(I'm from Sweden and UK of course is little US.)
Re:Sweden and UK (Score:5, Funny)
Well, for the UK it's normal. They are both in the Coalition of the United, together with the United Arab Emirates.
The Swedes' alliance, otoh, makes no sense. Why would you ally to a country with uglier women? Or, in the case of Sweden, why would you ally to anyone*?
*: well, maybe they could lower the bar a tiny bit to let Ukraine in.
[Disclaimer: This post, combining a bad joke, an off-topic comment and some trolling, should replace all my posts for the day. I have a lot of work and had to optimize my daily Slashdot contribution.]
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The Swedes' alliance, otoh, makes no sense.
Well, applying Occam's razor is tricky when there isn't any transparency on the matter. Without an official version every plausible suggestion will have to be a conspiracy theory. [gnome.org]
The two possible versions I can think of would either be that the Swedish government are allied with the US behind the peoples back and secretly does the bidding of the US where they in return are supposed to get protection from Russia. (Sweden is supposed to be neutral so officially being allied would be a big nope.)
The other vers
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... and why Sweden so desperatly wants to get hold of Julian Assange?
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.. and in the case of Assange why they continue and for whatever reason can't simply question him in the UK.
As for the defense wouldn't it just be easier if we joined NATO to get that effect?
What I've heard before is that (I think) US got to have nuclear subs west (?) of Sweden in return for developing the JA-37 Viggen which supposedly was beneficial because they got cover by the Swedish air force.
And the other one actually also end up being an air force one because that one is about our nuclear weapons pro
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In the UK supposedly 13% of the Internet (bandwidth? What? I have no idea) is used up for cat related content :D (I guess that include loading YouTube / Facebook / Instagram / .. too beyond showing said actual cat.)
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Wag the dog.
The UK is The Brain
The US is Pinky
Sweden is just following the strong nationalism trending all over Europe these days.
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Sweden is just following the strong nationalism trending all over Europe these days.
I would rather say it's still not listening.
We take in 20% of the immigrants with less than 2% of the EU population.
Anyone from Syria get to stay. Which lead to Sweden accepting 100+ times more Syrians than Finland.
In August the number of expected asylum seekers was raised to 100 000 which would had been 3.37 times more than three years ago.
Supposedly Sweden would accept more immigrants than the US.
There's a general ignorance and hate against people not supporting that agenda and voting against it (even tho
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:-) Thank you for confirming my point... The whole continent is headed that direction. We should just roll back the calendar about 85 years...
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The problem is just that people in general totally not at all dig their nation and culture.
If they did why would one take in so many immigrants?
I do realize other nations may do that to a less extent than Sweden.
Sweden take in most in EU. More than Germany (who have like 82 million people rather than 9.67.)
75 years ago there was 1% foreign born in Sweden. Now it's 16-17% which is more than in the US. Around/over 27% of the Swedes have got at least one foreign born parent.
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Maybe you don't realize it, but you are using a bunch of statistical mumbo-jumbo in an attempt to justify your call for racial/national purity. I ain't interested. Like I said, this is the decline the continent is going through right now, and you are providing a perfect example. Go work that crap on another corner. Everything you post here is only digging you into a deeper hole.
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Except I argue the opposite is what's really happening.
The nationalistic forces are small whereas immigration and multiculturalism is what is actually happening not the opposite.
SpyBlock (Score:5, Insightful)
Using a VPN to block spying is becoming just as necessary as using AdBlock to block advertising these days.
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VPN use will drop all internet data into another country. All that is stored is years of logs to one ip range
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Worse than that. You need two VPNs, in two countries that can't stand the smell of each other, with one of them being a country that doesn't wanna play nice with the US, just to ensure they don't "help" each other...
Sweden has to. (Score:4, Informative)
Sweden has an agreement with the US to provide these logs in full. Totally against Swedish law and against every privacy law in the EU. No sane company should have any data what so ever in Swedish servers or companies.
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Why not discover the truth by yourself? Personally i could not give a flying fuck if people want citations because you know what? Im sick and tired of talking to people with their own agenda. Anything that wont fit their political views they just have to throw their dung at. Some people you can show a video, a written signed letter, a person in dispute doing an own confession and their mother telling it but they still wont accept it.
There are people out there who strife for stupidity and ignorance like it w
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Cable collection, an expansion of collection sites shared with the NSA, Tailored Access Operations, Quantum, help with telecommunications.
Sweden helps US spy on Russia, Snowden leaks show December 6, 2013
http://www.smh.com.au/world/sw... [smh.com.au]
"excerpt of a larger document showing Sweden’s status as a closely allied “Third-party partner”"
http://www.svt.se/ug/read-the-... [www.svt.se] (11 december 2013)
https [eff.org]
Make the cost explicit in the bills (Score:2)
Appeal (Score:1)
CJEU stated that the directive "interferes in a particularly serious manner with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and to the protection of personal data".
One could understand that any similar local laws or practices should be void/illegal in the EU, and in violation of European Convention on Human Rights.