Tele2 rage against police surveillance – Swedish Dagbladet

The Data Retention Directive hanging loose and it is shortly up to the ECJ to decide on the directive’s future in Sweden.

But despite the question marks is continuing law enforcement authorities instead of increasing their inquiries to Swedish operators. Only the last six months the number of requests increased from 1,500 per month to 10 000th

In a debate article in Dagens Nyheter yesterday Tele2 Sweden’s CEO Thomas Ekman together with the General Counsel Stefan Backman fierce attack on law enforcement authorities’ mass-surveillance ” .

– A large amount of the requests we receive are mass emptying, where you want to empty a base station of all information. We mention this now because the tendency of larger requests will become more common and less defined. They demand not only data for a certain time, but long before and long after that something happened, explains Thomas Ekman and continues:

– We wish to inform you that there is a perfunctory inquiry. What is demanded is the location information of where you are and where one phoned been. And then it’s much call lists.

Tele2 stops almost 10 per cent of government requests.

– If there is a question that lies outside the law we release do not release the information. It can be if there are no grounds or suspicion of crime, and is a random request, says Tele2 Sweden’s CEO.

The controversial data retention directive was declared in April 2014 as invalid by the Court because it did not contain adequate rules on the protection of personal data . European Court of Justice considered that the rules allowed greater intrusion into individual privacy than what is necessary.

But the government announced last summer that the data retention directive is still valid and that PTS can act against authorities stop collecting data, Tele2 has appealed an order from PTS and the appeal has now requested guidance from the European Court of Justice.