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As this blog has pointed out since the FRA Act was passed, we should expect more bad news from Sweden regarding individual privacy and freedom. This is now confirmed by Maud Olofsson, the chairwoman of the Center Party, one of the four in the governing center-right coalition:
To the critics [of the FRA Act] I want to say - it is good that you held us to high standards. During the debate the center-right coalition listened to you. ... Ahead of us are many difficult decisions. [They pertain to] public surveillance cameras, credit cards, employer control [over employees] and the PKU database. For those we will need for all with good intentions to come together.
In other words, one of Sweden's most prominent politicians and minister of industry and trade in the Reinfeldt administration, says that if you think the FRA Act was "it", then you have another thing coming. As this blog recently noted, it will be a cakewalk to get almost anything through the Riksdag after this, including a pending constitutional overhaul that should make democratically minded legislators crinch.
This way, the FRA Act served a very cynical purpose: it tore down the democratic society's defense against all kinds of authoritarian legislation.
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