The Swedish Security Service wants direct access to systems used by service providers to collect information on user communications, but the providers are convinced that would be a threat to data privacy.
The E.U. data-retention directive has been a hot topic in Sweden and was finally implemented last year. The data now saved allows authorities investigating crimes to find out things such as who, when, and where two people communicated using, for example, email or text messages.
The process is now handled manually, but the national security service wants to standardize and automate it. Doing this would decrease the risk for potential errors that could occur when the process is done manually, the Security Service said in a statement Tuesday. The new system also makes it easier for the Commission on Security and Integrity Protection and the Data Inspection Board to prevent misuse, it said.
But it seems that will be difficult to achieve. Saving the data is mandatory for service providers, but automating the process to hand over data is voluntary and large service providers aren’t on board with the proposal.
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