>From YLE News: "Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen says he is unaware of any ultimatum issued by mobile phone giant Nokia to leave Finland if legislation allowing employers to monitor staff e-mails is not enacted.
The newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reported on Sunday that Nokia had threatened to leave Finland if new legislation allowing firms to closely monitor employeesÂ’ e-mails was not enacted." --clip-- http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2009/02/ministers_and_nokia_refute_ultimatum_claim__517722.html Juha-Matti Paul Ferguson [[email protected]] kirjoitti: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Via Techdirt.com. > > [snip] > > There's quite a story making the rounds, suggesting that Nokia is putting > significant pressure on the Finnish government, demanding that it pass a > law allowing it to spy on its employees, or the company will leave Finland. > Nokia is quickly denying the claim, which does seem pretty extreme. > However, that doesn't mean that Nokia hasn't put political pressure on the > government to pass this law. > > Apparently, the company has been caught multiple times illegally spying on > employees, and has worked hard to get this law passed, which would legalize > its actions. Despite legal experts all insisting that the law is > unconstitutional, apparently the Finnish Parliament's Constitutional Law > Committee has decided to move forward with it anyway -- which is what > resulted in the speculation about the threat to leave Finland. > > [snip] > > Link: > http://techdirt.com/articles/20090202/0214363603.shtml > > - - ferg > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) > > wj8DBQFJh+k8q1pz9mNUZTMRAkfMAKCP8gg2mQZ2f8TOhpMQv8Bwb+9j4QCfUNT7 > 7H5OpsXT4XXZ097E3RJeACc= > =Fx/L > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawgster(at)gmail.com > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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.
