Sweden approves wiretapping law.

spying-on-us And so it starts! In a startling decision, Sweden is to introduce sweeping changes [2] to its surveillance capabilities. Under new legislation its intelligence agencies will be given free reign to intercept and scan all international calls, faxes and e-mails.

Bringing it into line with other nations including China, Korea and America, UK, Australia using the Echelon system (what words might they be looking for), Sweden will the first western European country to openly admit to its interception abilities.

What next for European freedoms, not much it would appear.

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