[Becci]

They tried to do that with Hong Kong (search up 'article 23' on Wikipedia if you're interested). It was a little more overt than your situation to be honest - although the new law in Sweden explicitly allows complete surveillance, it's still a small jump from that to abuse and Nazi Germany. Fair enough, it's a first step ... so alarm bells should be ringing. I hope that the people of Sweden fight back and let the government know this new decision is not welcome.

Of all the places I would expect democracy to fall, Sweden was on the bottom of my list. I saw a documentary where it said the people in Sweden have the highest standards of living/assistance in health care etc. and have the lowest baby mortality rates. People in Sweden were also one of the 'happiest'. So ... reading this is surprising.

Article 23 stated "The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government" ... basically, we nearly couldn't act against the government at all. That was, until 500,000 citizens marched in protest (keeping in mind there are around 6-7 million citizens in HK overall, so that's a big percentage). The government got scared and shelved Article 23. Good riddance.