Norwegian goverment improves privacy laws

Posted at June 26, 2005

Norwegian Minister of justice, Odd Einar Dørum, wants to improve laws to protect individuals privacy.

Some background first: In Norway, wine and spirits are only sold through staterun shops called “Vinmonopolet” (or “Polet” – as most people say). Recently there has been a case where employees in Vinmonopolet are suspected to get money from wine importers, to have the importers wines on Vinmonoplets shelves.

The executives in Vinmonopolet gave their yes to an internal investigation, where lots of e-mail of employees were searched, both job-related and private. Including deleted documents and e-mails still on servers.

Minister Dørum does not like this, and wants to improve the laws protecting employees privacy.

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(Original image from sxc.hu)

Parlamentic leader of Dørums party Venstre (the liberal party), Trine Skei Grande says to nrk.no:

“Recently the Minister of justice started a project that will examine everything concerning individuals doing surveillance on others, and employers control of e-mail is something that should be included in this project”, says Grande.

(My translation – feel free to correct me in comments if you have a better one!).

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