Features

• Pirate Party finds France fertile territory

  Sweden's Pirate Party won 7.13 percent of the vote in elections earlier this month. Its campaign for the respect of privacy, the reform of copyright law and the abolition of the patent system earned it a seat in the European Parliament, and it may yet gain another seat there, if planned changes to the number of seats attributed to each country win approval.

  By Peter Sayer | 27 June, 2009 01:26

  Tags: EU parliament, France, Parti Pirate Français, Pirate Party, Sweden

• Swedish regulators look at handling of mobile location data

  The sale of location information from mobile operators to service providers could result in privacy issues, and needs to be investigated, two Swedish regulators said on Tuesday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 June, 2009 00:40

  Tags: data protection, privacy, Sweden