[NOISE] Re: Notes from the SF Physical Cypherpunks meeting

> From: minow@apple.com (Martin Minow)
> Subject: Re: Notes from the SF Physical Cypherpunks meeting
[...]
> The Swedish government has a rather strong tradition of protection
> of individual privacy (encrypting COM e-mail is one example).
[...]
> Martin Minow
> minow@apple.com

    Huh? 'a rather strong tradition of protection of individual privacy'? In 
Sweden, for many years  you could (and for all I know, still) go to a public
records office and look up all kinds of personal data on anyone, without
restriction - you could, for example, find out your co-workers exact 
salaries if you were curious.

   My understanding is that Sweden's postion vis-a-vis the Internet has
been particularly clueless, with international email technically a crime,
and government officials who regard modems as criminal tools.

   I hope things have improved.

Peter Trei (former resident alien in Sweden)
ptrei@acm.org

Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 14-May-96 [NOISE] Re: Notes from the
.. by "Peter Trei"@process.com 
>    My understanding is that Sweden's postion vis-a-vis the Internet has
> been particularly clueless, with international email technically a crime,
> and government officials who regard modems as criminal tools.

I have some info on current Swedish legislative proposals at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/international/

-Declan