Big Brother comes to Sweden? Bill to “monitor all email and telephone traffic coming in and out of the country”

World+dog ignores Sweden’s Draconian wiretap bill by Dan Goodin, published in the UK’s Register. Think it doesn’t matter what happens in Sweden, since you live in “the land of the free and the home of the brave? Better think again, because it’s the world wide web…
Sweden. One of the co-developers (Niklas Zennström) of Skype, Kazaa and Joost is Swedish. The Pirate Bay (and their new blogging service Baywords), Swedish. The Pirate Bay’s ISP, PRQ, (based in Sweden) also hosts Wikileaks.

I’d set up a fake email address through the Pirate Party, a Swedish political party that hated Internet surveillance and promised to keep their mail accounts a secret from everyone, even the cops.

(from Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, p.40 in .pdf of the ebook)

H/T to ThinkingShift for pointing out the story.

Tags: Big Brother, datamining, internet, little brother, privacy, surveillance, Sweden