Sweden on Track to Becoming the Next Surveillance Society?
Date : 2008 06 06 Category : Web News
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The administrators of ThePirateBay know all to well what it's like to be spied on. Though if security legislators get their way, the MPAA might not need to hire investigators to keep an eye on them according to EDRI, a digital rights advocacy group in Europe.
If there's anything the raids on ThePirateBay proved, it's that digital rights activism is very present in Sweden. It's activism like this that may be only recently rivaled by Germany where thousands took to the streets to protest data retention laws.
Recently, an editorial by the staff at EDRI highlighted some disturbing trends over in Sweden - namely what is known as the Lex Orwell law which is, interestingly enough, seems very appropriately named.