Sweden has adopted contentious legislation that will give officials sweeping powers to eavesdrop on all email and telephone traffic that crosses the nation’s borders.
After heated debate and last-minute changes, MPs approved the bill that has outraged some many politicians and prompted protesters to hand out copies of George Orwell’s novel 1984 outside the Stockholm parliament.
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The Swedish parliament has delayed a vote on a bill that would allow local authorities to monitor e-mail and fax messages and telephone calls.
The bill, due to be voted Wednesday morning, now goes back to the Committee on Defense to be slightly reworked in order to appease critics within the majority coalition. The changes are [...]

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Sweden’s “Big Brother” law, allowing the government to snoop on all outgoing cross-border emails, could be blocked tomorrow by a handful of rebel parliamentarians ready to defy their party whips.
If the dissenters derail the law - dubbed Lex Orwell by the Swedes - it will be a major blow to the centre-right government, which claims [...]

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