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This may not be illegal at all. Like all other countries, we have foreigners living in Norway. A small subset of these are bad actors. Most notable we have a h
by ancorevard 9y ago
This may not be illegal at all.
Like all other countries, we have foreigners living in Norway. A small subset of these are bad actors. Most notable we have a history of Russian agents and ISIS members in the country. Intercepting all communications filtering for these non-Norwegian citizens/terrorists is not illegal.
- fjsolwmv 9y agoThat's one controversial interpretation that claims collecting citizen data doesn't count if you don't really mean it.
- ancorevard 9y agoThey are legally obligated to monitor all communications from and to a foreign country originated by a foreigner in Norway. The dragnet approach, monitoring all in order to filter down, seems reasonable as long as they only store the filtered data and not full stream.
- testvox 9y agoWhy do you think they only store the filtered data?
- e12e 9y agoThey don't, and they've been lobbying for changing the law. They've said so on record (that they grab and store everything, and deletion is based on intelligence value, not following laws governing surveillance and storage of personal (citizen) data).
- johnhenry 9y agoGood point. While I'm grateful for the information, and I don't think that they meant any harm, but the OP does us a disservice by dropping the word "Potential" from the title.
- sleepyhead 9y agoAccording to this well-known lawyer it is not only illegal but in breach of the constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrk.no%2Fytring%2Fsviket-mot-grunnloven-1.13940422&edit-text= https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=y&prev...
- e12e 9y agoYou forgot mossad assassins. That doesn't mean this is legal; much like in other countries military intelligence have no jurisdiction over citizens - there are separate domestic agencies for that (the FBI/CIA, MI5/MI6 distinction).
- mtgx 9y agoHow do you know they only "filter for non-Norwegians"? According to some people in this thread, the intelligence agencies should operate in complete secrecy.
- willstrafach 9y agoThis article is about aiming ground based satellite dishes at foreign satellites and decoding the signals they see.
- oh_sigh 9y agoI don't think OP made that claim - merely that if that is how they were operating with the dragnet, it would not be illegal.