The Swedish parliament will perform their voting of the revised FRA-legislation, now called wire-tapping legislation. After a rather nice democratic movement during autumn 2008 the government was forced to make some additions to the legislation in order to get it more friendly regarding people's integrity issues. The blog community was very active in that democratic movement and must now be seen as a breakthrough for blogs getting politically important.
So what has been added to the legislation? A court must be involved in any wire-tapping activity, only issues written in the law can be used as motive for wire-tapping, the court will decide exactly which wires that will be allowed to tap, there will be a mandatory information duty to those individuals that have been exposed to tapping and there will also be an independent committe that will monitor the tapping activities.
Anyhow, one Swedish parliament member, Camilla Lindberg says she still experience doubts. If she votes no, the additions that have been introduced due to her resistance will become denied. If yes, it is against her personal belief. Must be hard. Several parliament members were forced by their leaders in 2008 to not oppose their party agreements. Maybe not so democratic.
No comments:
Post a Comment