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Submission + - Unibet CEO Detained by Dutch Authorities (unibetgroupplc.com)

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mpawlo

on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @05:05PM

mpawlo writes: "Mr Petter Nylander, CEO of Swedish online gaming company Unibet, was yesterday detained by Dutch authorities, using a European arrest warrant issued by French authorities. Unibet is considered (by French authorities) to be in violation of French gaming laws. However, the European Court of Justice recently ruled that betting services are to be considered under the EU Treaty, hence Unibet's French operations should be deemed legal under EU law. No relevant Swedish official has yet commented on the issue. Mr Nylander is reportedly still held, awaiting questioning Wednesday morning."

Submission + - The Quran Going Mobile in Sweden (myquran.mobi)

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mpawlo

on Monday September 10, 2007 @04:32PM

mpawlo writes: "The Quran is going mobile with Swedish MyQuran.mobi released today. With MyQuran the user can access and listed to the Quran anywhere with his cell phone, getting certified recitings of the verses in Quran. MyQuran has released its solution in collaboration with Islamic council. In Sweden, you also find Voxbiblia.com with the Christian word in spoken form. Swedes are quite secular, but also very searching, which could be one explanation for these services being released in the cold north .-)"

Submission + - Bloody hard to run a blog in Sweden

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mpawlo

on Friday June 22, 2007 @02:50AM

mpawlo writes: "Swedish media today reports that Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt is being investigated by a prosecutor because of his blog. In a blog post, Mr Bildt states that some 13.000 comments are posted on his blog and that he and his staff try to erase all inapproriate comments. However, in the comment being investigated, genocide of palestinians has been proposed. This comment was not erased, which prompted a Swedish leftist blogger to report the conservative foreign minister's blog and the comment to the authorities. Now a prosecutor is looking into the blog and the foreign minister will likely be held responsible for the comments due to poor Swedish legislation on freedom of speech in relation to the Internet.

Mr Bildt has been in the digital frontline for many years. As the prime minister of Sweden, he sent email to president Clinton, thus becoming the first national leader to use email to communicate with another national leader. He has been adviser to ICANN and has now recently been the first foreign minister to blog extensively. It would be very sad to see him limit his efforts just because it is bloody hard to run a blog with comments in Sweden."

Submission + - Creeper discovers intelligence agencies (gnuheter.com)

Submitted by mpawlo on Friday June 15, 2007 @08:33AM

mpawlo writes: Patrik Wallstrom of Gnuheter fame has released his new privacy project Creeper. Creeper is basically a picture you place on your blog, website or bittorrent tracker site. Creeper will check the IP of everyone accessing the blog, web site etc and do a lookup into a predefined database over governmental agencies. The result is aggregated on a publicly accessible web site. Creeper will disclose a lot of interesting information regarding how and when governmental officials use their computers and what they monitor at work.

The project was initiated in Sweden a few weeks ago and has already raised serious concerns over privacy matters in Sweden. One of the three letter combination-agencies was discovered monitoring a password protected piracy bittorrent site, i.e. it hacked the web site and kept track of everything happeningthere. This will probably keep happening for six months or so, until all agencies will learn to cover their tracks and use other IP numbers and so forth. Or perhaps the ignorance will continue... Meanwhile, we can all learn what to expect in terms of surveillance and Big Brother tendencies online.

An independent German "Creeper" should be released any day now ("überwach" it is called and is not related to Creeper). Patrik is willing to offer the code to anyone interested in releasing the corresponding service in other countries.

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