> why would Sweden veto this unless they have some serious spionage going on themselves? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_

> why would Sweden veto this unless they have some serious spionage going on themselves? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law Conveniently, this doesn't separate between citizens and non-citizens, just traffic that crosses the border, and since most of us use services globally, most of our traffic crosses the border, and is therefore intercepted legally. Sweden has an interesting relationship with NATO, in as such that the majority of the population would never want to join, but at the same time there has always been an expectation since the end of WW2 that it would be in the strategic interest of NATO to protect Sweden from Soviet/Russia. Sweden pays for this protection secretly by being a lapdog and the latest payment was of course an increase in the amount of intelligence data given to the US, and the FRA law provided the legal framework for increasing collection of such data.