# Clarification on the Swedish Covert Surveillance Act

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/clarification-on-the-swedish-covert-surveillance-act/23499
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2024-12-27T10:20:14Z
**Posts:** 27
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## Post 12 by @ignoramous — 2024-12-27T16:50:06Z

> [@anon42475305](#):
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> We still know what the law says

Yes. Per refs, it doesn’t say what you seem to be thinking.

> [@anon42475305](#):
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> Sweden has strong rule of law

_Secrecy_ is the weakest link. If everything around this law is covert (including the safeguards), then I’d rather rely on 3p opinion, which makes it clear what is (“installing hardware/software” in third-party services like “websites” or equipments such as “computers”) and isn’t possible (“notifying” those that were pwned).

As I read it (from 3p reports), PG’s minimum criteria for VPNs is a _high bar_ for Swedish providers to meet. I’m interested in what others here have to say, too.

(I wouldn’t be even discussing this, but a team member reached a _different_ conclusion that Tor is probably what one should use instead of a ¿Swedish? VPN: [Cheaper VPN service recommendations? - #75 by Niek-de-Wilde](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/cheaper-vpn-service-recommendations/20844/75))

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