Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Field Report on Swedish Bugging Protests

Sweden - Saturday, demonstrations were held in four major cities in Sweden to protest against the bill to allow a governmental authority, the FRA, to bug data traffic of any Swedish citizen at will. Surpassing the United States in privacy abolishment, this bill allows the government to spy on any data traffic, including phone calls, SMS, e-mail, web traffic etc.

...a person named Thom Kiraly went up and read an interesting poem about bugging. It ended with “Listen to the citizens - but do it in the right way!” (more)