Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio reported Wednesday that Finnish authorities had expressed concern about Sweden's plans to boost the interception of telecommunications crossing the border.
"Finnish law requires that all telecommunications traffic is kept confidential. It is the transport ministry's task to monitor that everyone live up to this obligation," Harri Pursiainen, the permanent secretary at the Finnish transport and communications ministry, told the Finnish News Agency (STT).
The Swedish government is drafting a bill that would give Försvarets radioanstalt (FRA), the national authority for signals intelligence, a wider envelope than before to intercept and monitor cross-border telecommunications. (more)
