the Issue of unregistered prepaid cards for mobile phones was current when it was revealed that terrordömde Rakhmat Akilov had used 53 different sim card before the deed, at queen street, according to the police investigation.
It did to the democrats in January 2018 proposed a ban on unregistered prepaid cards to be able to track who is linked to a telephone, and thus more difficult for the criminal. Last fall was a proposal developed by a working group that worked with how the social Democrats ‘ policy would look like after the election.
a number of parliamentary parties, Liberals and Conservatives, in favour of the proposal. The conservatives have also taken forward a similar proposal.
During the regeringsförklaringen on on Monday, reminded Stefan Löfven again that the issue is still very topical – in which he said that the unregistered prepaid cards should be banned.
Neither the Swedish data Inspection board and national Post and telecom agency is familiar with the proposal and would not, therefore, express how they look at the proposal, which so far seems to be an election promise.
– It seems to be in an early stage we have not taken part of any proposals, and we are a likely referral hospitals, ” says Gustav Linder, a lawyer at the Swedish data Inspection board.
welcome to the ban is the public Prosecutor’s office.
– It is a problem we have had for a long time, that you can go to Pressbyrån and buy a prepaid sim card and put it in his cell phone to commit this crime, ” says Thomas Bälter Nordenman, the prosecutor in Uppsala, sweden and a specialist on cyber-crime.
the Ban is already in place in several european countries, including Norway, Germany, France and Belgium.
the new proposal also will work in practice and not evaded to the social democrats to ban roaming charges for foreign non-issuing prepaid cards.
” Well, sure, you can it by sending someone else who buys the prepaid card. But then must the agent identify themselves and then you can connect the agent to the suspect. But we must do what we can to reduce the ability of criminals to commit crimes, ” says Thomas Bälter Nordenman.
at the same time, ” says kammaråklagaren that there is a more important change in the law that both the Police and the Prosecutor’s office want to go through in parliament. Namely, the data storage, a change in the law would mean that mobile phone companies are forced to store their data, so that the police can get to them when they are investigating serious crimes.
– It is data storage, which is more important to grab than to require identification when purchasing prepaid calling cards. We have no storage so we can not trace where the mobile phone has been, we can’t track crimes that occur on the internet or track ip addresses, ” says Thomas Bälter Nordenman.
data Protection is a network that works to spread knowledge about issues surrounding personal privacy and how responsible handling of personal data, can see out. Maria Holmström Mellberg, vice-president of the association, says that they are not familiar with the details, but they are cautiously positive to it.
” But we are worried if you are not in the concrete proposal to make sufficient tradeoffs in the valuation of the benefits versus risks of surveillance and the intrusion into the personal privacy that leads to and takes adequate steps to minimize the intrångsriskerna. Then one must ask whether the proposal is cost-effective, ” she says.
Just as kammaråklagaren says Maria Holmström, who recalled that those who want to circumvent the ban are likely to succeed.
– It will require that you take other steps to ensure that you stop the decoys and goalkeepers. It will in turn become quite labour – intensive and time-consuming.
