Protest grows against Swedish surveillance law
Stockholm - Sweden's new law on monitoring data traffic within
the country is coming under pressure with the heads of the eight
leading mobile phone service providers signing a letter protesting
against it Thursday.
The letter published in the Dagens Nyheter newspaper also said that
the Google search company is considering withdrawing its servers from
Sweden because of the law.
The surveillance law allows the authorities to monitor all
international telephone calls and emails sent via international servers
without a court order or warrant.
Political representatives have received more than six million protest emails since the law was passed in mid-June.
The Svenska Dagbladet newspaper reported that the real reason for
the law is so Swedish intelligence can monitor data traffic to and from
Russia, much of which travels through Sweden. (dpa)
