Wrong assumptions by Ola Tedin

Today Ola Tedin wrote in Ystads Allehanda the following:

För att inte tala om din internetleverantör, som dels enligt lag
måste spara din surfhistoria och dina mail i åratal, men som också
kan använda dem som en handelsvara.

This is wrong. One can be against intrusions in privacy, and think that certain legislation is wrong. But the discussion does not get easier if there are wrong assumptions published that are wrong. In this case Ola is wrong.

The ISPs can today save logs a maximum of 6 months, but they are only allowed to do it if they have the need for the logs. This is laid out in Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications).

What he might think of is the implementation of Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC in Sweden. Something that was described in the investigation Lagring av Trafikuppgifter för Brottsbekämning SOU 2007:76.

The proposal of the implementation say that storage is for one year. And his statement on trading information is just wrong. Specifically without explicit consent from the end user.