Am 14.04.2012 09:51, schrieb Fabio Pietrosanti (naif):

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In other words, Sweden does monitor all traffic.

Almost all countries have capabilities to monitor internet traffic at borders.

Indeed, though "capabilities" would not imply they actually do. I am sorry for my choice of words bc it is also difficult to determine what "monitoring" means to an institution, e.g. "printing emails forwarded to them".

It seems to me that Sweden is so civil that even the intelligence need to ask a court order to do so.

The main advantage of a court order is that we get a formal (classified) track record of the actual cases and statistics. Parliament scrutiny is a useful device. It is helpful to assess intelligence performance, and make services more efficient. You need external checks and balances, otherwise technocratic bodies get lazy and useless. Prior Court Order: Throughout Europe the EU Telecoms Package rules should apply. In the reform process some insisted on the prior court order principle. The objective and motivation from my colleagues (who wrote the related amendment) was to prevent automated net filtering (as demanded by the content industries and AT&T). The driving force for traffic monitoring is not the Levithan in Europe, but content interests. Italy is very advanced in media industry driven ISP filtering. They tried it earlier than the other member states via voluntary agreements. See also Sabam vs. Netlog. http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=119512&mode=req&pageIndex=1&dir=&occ=first&part=1&text=&doclang=EN&cid=157508 Best, Andri _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE