[Swedish ]Surveillance Chief Criticised: http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054&Format=1&artikel=2432900
"The head of the FRA, SwedenÂ’s National Defence Radio Establishment, said on Sunday that in urgent cases bugging could be carried out, and then approved by a court afterwards." Juha-Matti Martin Wehlou [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: > On 7 Nov 2008, at 13:22, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: > > > There is an English language report about the state of the FRA law: > > > > "A controversial surveillance law comes into force at the start of > > next year. But the government has now announced that 15 amendments, > > designed to protect individualsÂ’ privacy, will not be included until > > the Spring of 2009. > > The "consensus" seems to be that those amendmends don't really mean > much. Most politicians that opposed the law, though, pronounced > themselves satisfied, so the amendmends gave them a face-saving out. > In short, the law stands with minor ineffectual modifications and > things don't look too good for privacy. > > The blogosphere got their 15 minutes of fame on this issue, but > nothing really changed. > > ============================================== > Be a mensch > > J. Martin Wehlou MD, CISSP, CSDP - Uppsala/Sweden > PGP keyId: 0xC7D56E11 (http://www.wehlou.com/files/jmwpubkey.asc) > http://www.wehlou.com > http://www.ursecta.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/mwehlou > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
