Sweden seeks telecoms monitoring

Sweden's government has presented a bill to give its defence intelligence agency powers to monitor any e-mail or phone call into or out of the country. The BBC reports.

"The National Defence Radio Establishment currently listens in on military communications and needs a court order for any other surveillance.

The government says conversations within Sweden would remain untouched.

But critics say the proposals put before parliament would be among the most intrusive in the world."

emily | 7:56 AM | News, Buzz |
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