Sweden Admits Tapping Citizens’ Phones for Decades

Sweden is close to implementing new surveillance legislation that will include the monitoring of emails, telephone calls and keyword searches using advanced pattern analysis. The objective is to detect ‘threats such as terrorism, IT attacks or the spread of weapons of mass destruction’ but the proposals have divided the country. In a misguided attempt to put people at ease, the government admitted that Sweden has been tapping its citizens’ phones for decades anyway.

Of course, I am sure everyone has wanted to hear this. It’s sad that this is what things have come to, or even have been for quite a while. You can’t even pick up your phone anymore as a normal human being without knowing for sure if it’s being tapped or not. I wonder how many other governments are doing this, besides the US and Sweden?

Source: Slashsot