At least 2,700 employees who worked on the implementation of the criticized Cosmic medical record system were forced to sign a far-reaching confidentiality agreement, reports Sveriges Radio's P4.
SwedenFreedom of expression expert Nils Funcke is critical of the verdict against the man convicted for actions involving "Hitler apples" and an IS doll outside ministers' homes. "I think the district court's reasoning is weak," he says.
Swedish politicsMinister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (The Moderate Party) states that the son of Minister of Migration Johan Forssell (The Moderate Party) has not committed any crime. An assertion that may constitute undue influence, writes freedom of speech expert Nils Funcke on DN Debatt.
Swedish politicsThe Stockholm Region's Communications Department is maintaining a register of journalists who request public documents, writes Journalisten. This is directly inappropriate, says freedom of expression expert Nils Funcke to the newspaper.
SwedenThe recruitment of L-leader Anna Starbrink to MSB was made deliberately in secret – to prevent transparency according to the principle of public access to information, reports Aftonbladet. It's a administrative culture in decay, says freedom of expression expert Nils Funcke to the newspaper.
SwedenHD stops legal databases from sharing verdicts with their subscribers because it contradicts the EU's data protection regulation GDPR. But Nils Funcke, an expert on the principle of public access, believes that there may be loopholes that allow the databases to continue their operations.
SwedenThe Riksdag's Constitutional Committee (KU) should initiate an investigation of its own into why Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) did not ensure that the now former national security adviser Henrik Landerholm's suspected negligence with confidential information was reported to the police. This is the opinion of freedom of expression and secrecy expert, journalist Nils Funcke in an article on DN Debatt.
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