Surplus information

The party programme binds the party to protecting personal integrity and fundamental principles in a rule of law, and to everyone having the right to a broad private sphere protected on practical and principled grounds. The counter-proposal's demands — that the law shall specify what purposes surplus information may be used for and that the requirement for proportionality assessment shall explicitly appear — are exactly such rule-of-law limitations on authorities' information use that the plan advocates. A regulation that leaves the purposes unrestricted goes in the opposite direction from the plan's opposition to growing surveillance and registration. The plan however says nothing about the committee's reasoning grounds.

• protect personal integritydecisive»personliga integriteten och fundamentala principer i en rättsstat« (party programme ↗)“personal integrity and fundamental principles in a rule of law”
• protection of private sphereweak support»Alla människor har rätt till en bred privat sfär« (party programme ↗)“All people have the right to a broad private sphere”
• control of police's exercise of power»oberoende system för att granska de yrkesgrupper, till exempel polisen« (party programme ↗)“independent systems for scrutinizing such professions as the police”
• prevention before repression»Alltför ofta lyfts repression och hårdare tag upp som lösningar istället för att ta itu med problemen på allvar« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Far too often repression and harsher measures are raised as solutions instead of tackling the problems seriously”

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The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The election manifesto is unambiguous about direction: the police should get more tools, better opportunities for wiretapping and house searches, and secrecy barriers between authorities should be torn down so that information can be used in crime prevention. The counter-proposal's demands go in the opposite direction by codifying limitations on what purposes surplus information can be used for. The party programme's obligation to protect personal integrity speaks for restraint, but is directed at commercial actors and online harassment and carries less weight than the election manifesto's recent commitment. The plan therefore decides to reject the demand.

• more tools for the policedecisive»Polisen behöver också fler verktyg, som bättre möjligheter till avlyssning och husrannsakan. Sekretesshinder mellan myndigheter ska rivas så att polisen och andra yrkesgrupper kan göra sitt jobb.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The police also need more tools, such as better opportunities for wiretapping and house searches. Secrecy barriers between authorities should be torn down so that the police and other professional groups can do their job.”
• uncompromising crime prevention»Kampen mot kriminaliteten ska vara kompromisslös.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The fight against crime must be uncompromising.”
• hit organized crime»Slå hårt mot den organiserade brottslighetens finansiering och organisation.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strike hard against organized crime's financing and organization.”
• protection for personal integrity»Det är samhällets absoluta skyldighet att skydda friheten och den personliga integriteten« (party programme ↗)“It is society's absolute duty to protect freedom and personal integrity”

The party programme states that the party opposes all laws that entail disproportionate intrusions into privacy and that crime prevention must not be carried out at the expense of human rights. The counter-proposal's requirement — that the law shall specify which purposes surplus information can be used for and that a proportionality assessment shall be explicitly shown — is precisely the kind of legally regulated limitation the plan seeks. The plan accepts that law enforcement authorities get tools, but only with legal security ensured and without improper registration. Therefore, the plan supports the counter-proposal's requirement.

• rejects disproportionate privacy intrusionsdecisive»alla lagar som innebär oproportionerliga ingrepp i« (party programme ↗)“all laws that entail disproportionate intrusions into”
• no improper registration»otillbörlig registrering eller övervakning baserad på« (party programme ↗)“improper registration or surveillance based on”
• legal security in crime prevention»Rättssäkerheten ska tryggas samtidigt som de« (party programme ↗)“Legal security shall be ensured while”
• strong independent rule of law»tillsammans med en stark och oberoende rättsstat« (2022 manifesto ↗)“together with a strong and independent rule of law”

The party programme establishes that all legislation shall be tested against its impact on personal integrity and that there must be proportionality between the restriction and the purpose of the law. The counter-proposal's requirements — that the law specifies acceptable purposes for excess information and that the proportionality assessment is explicitly set out in the regulation — are precisely such a test written into the legal text. The election manifesto's defence of the rule of law and individuals' rights against the state points in the same direction.

• proportionality requirement in legislationweak support»All lagstiftning bör prövas mot dess påverkan på människors personliga integritet. Det måste finnas en proportionalitet mellan lagstiftningens inskränkning av medborgarnas integritet och lagarnas syfte.« (party programme ↗)“All legislation should be tested for its impact on people's personal integrity. There must be a proportionality between the limitation of citizens' integrity in legislation and the purpose of the laws.”
• rule of law against expanded coercive measuresdecisive»Rättsstaten och individens rättigheter gentemot staten måste försvaras. Vi säger därför nej till visitationszoner, kollektiv bestraffning, omvänd bevisbörda, anonyma vittnen, preventiv avlyssning och inskränkningar av religionsfriheten.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The rule of law and individuals' rights against the state must be defended. We therefore say no to stop-and-search zones, collective punishment, reversed burden of proof, anonymous witnesses, preventive surveillance and restrictions on freedom of religion.”
• strong privacy protection»Ett starkt integritetsskydd är därför en omistlig del av ett öppet och demokratiskt samhälle.« (party programme ↗)“Strong privacy protection is therefore an indispensable part of an open and democratic society.”
• scrutiny of state coercion»Staten är den enda enheten i samhället som får utöva tvång och våld.« (party programme ↗)“The state is the only entity in society that may exercise coercion and violence.”

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The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The party programme establishes that surveillance and registration shall not be used for purposes other than the original reasons, which is precisely the purpose limitation the counter-proposal wishes to codify for surplus information. The programme also demands that measures that damage personal privacy be justified only when an opposing interest weighs clearly more, which corresponds to the requirement for an explicit proportionality assessment. That the election manifesto wishes to expand the secret coercive measures does not change that the plan demands clear limits on how the information may subsequently be used.

• purpose limitation for surveillancedecisive»Övervakning och registrering ska inte användas för andra syften än vad som var de ursprungliga motiven« (party programme ↗)“Surveillance and registration shall not be used for purposes other than what were the original reasons”
• proportionality requirement for privacy intrusions»är endast berättigade om ett motstående intresse väger uppenbart tyngre och åtgärden är effektiv.« (party programme ↗)“are justified only if an opposing interest weighs clearly more and the measure is effective.”
• strengthened privacy protection»Skyddet för den enskildes integritet ska stärkas.« (party programme ↗)“Protection of individual privacy shall be strengthened.”
• expanded secret coercive measures»Avlyssning och andra hemliga tvångsmedel ska kunna användas både vid misstanke om fler brott än i dag och efter domstolsbeslut mot organiserade gängmedlemmar även utan konkret brottsmisstanke.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Wiretapping and other secret coercive measures shall be able to be used both for suspicion of more crimes than today and by court decision against organized gang members even without concrete criminal suspicion.”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The election manifesto demands a complete review of secrecy rules so that authorities can share information with each other to prevent and clear up crime, which is the opposite of narrowing in law which purposes surplus information may be used for. The plan puts crime-fighting first in a situation described as extreme. That integrity should be handled with care remains a requirement for the application, but does not bear the demand for new legal limitations.

• information sharing against crimedecisive»Total översyn av sekretessreglerna, så att myndigheter kan dela uppgifter mellan sig för att förebygga och klara upp brott.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Complete review of secrecy rules, so that authorities can share information with each other to prevent and clear up crime.”
• crime-fighting first»Sverige befinner sig i en extrem situation.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden is in an extreme situation.”
• all crime shall be combated»Alla brott ska effektivt och utan undantag beivras« (party programme ↗)“All crime shall be effectively and without exception combated”
• caution with personal data»försiktighet och respekt för den personliga integriteten« (party programme ↗)“caution and respect for personal integrity”

The election manifesto is unambiguously aimed at giving the police more and sharper tools against serious crime, not at restricting how information can be used. Restricting in law the purposes for incidental information and adding an explicit proportionality requirement goes in the opposite direction from that commitment. The party programme's protection of personal integrity exists, but is explicitly balanced there against security and carries less weight than the election manifesto's crime-fighting line.

• vidgade polisiära befogenheterdecisive»Införa visitationszoner så att Polisen får bättre möjligheter att leta efter vapen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Introduce search zones so that the Police get better opportunities to search for weapons”
• utökad övervakning»Kraftigt öka antalet övervakningskameror« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Significantly increase the number of surveillance cameras”
• effektiv brottsutredning»Renodla Polisens uppdrag med fokus på att upptäcka, utreda och klara upp brott« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Focus on the Police's core mission with emphasis on detecting, investigating and clearing up crimes”
• integritet vägs mot trygghet»Frihet och trygghet går hand i hand.« (party programme ↗)“Freedom and security go hand in hand.”

The election manifesto demands that the justice system be given more effective tools and that procedural obstacles to increased prosecution be removed, not that use of already gathered information be narrowed. The counter-proposal wants conversely that the law specify which purposes surplus information can be used for and that a proportionality assessment be written in. The plan's position that few measures are too far-reaching against serious crime thus speaks against the demand.

• remove procedural obstaclesdecisive»Processuella hinder för att möjliggöra en ökad lagföring måste också undanröjas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Procedural obstacles for enabling increased prosecution must also be removed.”
• expanded information gathering»Åtgärder ska vidtas för att bättre kunna kartlägga gängaktiva genom t.ex. underrättelsearbete och informationsinhämtning, spaning, kameraövervakning och avlyssning.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Measures shall be taken to better be able to map gang-active persons through e.g. intelligence work and information gathering, investigation, camera surveillance, and wiretapping.”
• better tools for prosecution»Rättsväsendets samverkan mellan myndigheter och verktyg för att upptäcka och lagföra kriminella ska förbättras.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Interagency cooperation in the justice system and tools to detect and prosecute criminals shall be improved.”
• few measures too far-reaching»Sverigedemokraterna anser att få politiska åtgärder är för långtgående när det kommer till att pressa tillbaka både de kriminella gängen och den kultur som gör att de får fäste.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden Democrats believe that few political measures are too far-reaching when it comes to pressing back both criminal gangs and the culture that allows them to gain foothold.”