The Minister of Justice in Sweden wants to allow the police to bug telephones even when no concrete suspicion of crime exists. A proposal to amend the law to allow this will be presented in autumn.
The minister says that this is part of a policy to combat terrorism รข?? but he also states that politics is not being formulated by terrorist attacks.
As usual the concern for personal integrity is not high on the political agenda.
Maybe someone should tell him that the whole point of combatting terrorism is to preserve an open society. If we loose this the terrorists are not only dictating policy & politics but actually winning. If European countries such as the UK & Spain remember this in spite of terror attacks then why cannot Sweden (which has not been attacked) be more interested in integrity?