Exactly what the government proposes in its proposal does not go to check, because the Swedish public until Thursday. All that was offered by the minister for home affairs press conference on Tuesday was a press release and two title slides.
Of these, see that the storage is limited in accordance with the commission’s proposals. Information on the location of a cell phone found itself during a call is stored in the two months of telecom operators, and data on who talked with whom in six months. Abonnemangsuppgifter at the internet access will be stored in ten months.
in the fixed network to be exempted, including IP-telephony. Requirements on the decision of the prosecutor at the gathering for intelligence purposes is introduced. The possibility to obtain information on the systemhotande crimes, which in the past were temporary, made permanent, and is complemented with two new offences: state-mandated corporate espionage, and the rough ill-treatment or unlawful detention in systemhotande purpose.
“this has been one of my most priority legislations and a part of the government’s flying start”, says Mikael Damberg (S).
In december 2016, the court of justice held that the Swedish data retention is contrary to EU law. Since then, the police have not had the opportunity to investigate the crime with the help of data storage.
” Police officers I talked to said that the light was extinguished. Now it is high time to light the lamp again, ” says Damberg.
datalagringsutredningen from 2017. It was met by criticism from two directions. The police and the Fbi felt that the proposals were entirely inadequate.
– this will limit the prosecution of criminal offences such as child pornography and fraud, but perhaps, above all, serious crimes that we will not be able to investigate further, ” said Anders Ahlqvist, it expert at the National operations department (Noa) to the TT.
at the same time warned the court of appeal for upper Norrland, that even the commission’s proposals likely would be folded in the EUROPEAN court of justice at a new trial.
“We are fully aware that this is a balancing act between personal privacy and the police’s opportunities to investigate crime,” says Mikael Damberg.
to save, in principle, all traffic to and from computers and mobile phones in six months. In december 2016, however, the EU court ruled that the storage of the data was contrary to EU law, in the so-called Tele2-judgment.
It is likely that the telecom companies challenging the new law.
– I assume that companies follow the law, ” says Mikael Damberg.
bahnhof’s ceo Jon Karlung believes that the new Swedish on data retention in principle is a rewrite of the proposal, which was opposed by the EUROPEAN court of justice.
– The naming of things and trying to get this proposal through without regard to that it actually is a clear and well-written judgments from the EU, ” he says.
According to Karlung will Bahnhof to appeal if the new proposal becomes law.
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