More comprehensive criminal liability for attacks on trade secrets

The plan establishes that all people have the right to protection of their personal integrity and that those seeking asylum shall be guaranteed an individual and legally secure assessment under dignified circumstances. Using the migration agency's fingerprint and photo register for crime prevention makes asylum seekers a particularly monitored group, which clashes with that and with the plan's requirement that the legal system makes up for its racist legacy. The counter-proposal's limitation of register use is therefore supported by the plan.

• personal integritydecisive»Alla människor har rätt till skydd av sin personliga integritet.« (party programme ↗)“All people have the right to protection of their personal integrity.”
• dignified asylum assessment»Här ska den som söker asyl garanteras sin rätt till en individuell och rättssäker prövning under värdiga omständigheter.« (party programme ↗)“Here those seeking asylum shall be guaranteed their right to an individual and legally secure assessment under dignified circumstances.”
• legal system's racist legacy»Rättsväsendet har historiska problem som kommer ur klassamhället, patriarkatet och rasistiskt tankegods och behöver ett aktivt och medvetet arbete för att lägga det bakom sig.« (party programme ↗)“The legal system has historical problems stemming from class society, patriarchy and racist ideology and needs active and conscious work to move past them.”

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 establishes that Sweden must be able to defend itself against espionage and cyberattacks and that the police need more tools, while secrecy barriers between authorities should be torn down. Restricting the use of the migration authority's register in state-directed disclosure of technical trade secrets goes against this. The protection of personal privacy qualifies the balancing but does not support the counter-proposal's demand.

• defense against espionagedecisive»Vi måste kunna försvara oss militärt, men också mot hybridattacker, spionage och cyberangrepp.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We must be able to defend ourselves militarily, but also against hybrid attacks, espionage and cyberattacks.”
• more tools for the police»Polisen behöver också fler verktyg, som bättre möjligheter till avlyssning och husrannsakan.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The police also need more tools, such as better capabilities for wiretapping and house searches.”
• torn down secrecy barriers»Sekretesshinder mellan myndigheter ska rivas så att polisen och andra yrkesgrupper kan göra sitt jobb.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Secrecy barriers between authorities should be torn down so that the police and other professions can do their job.”
• protection of personal privacy»Skydd för den personliga integriteten.« (party programme ↗)“Protection of personal privacy.”

The plan establishes that the state should both protect against crime and respect personal integrity and that crime prevention must not happen at the expense of rule-of-law principles. Using the migration authority's register of fingerprints and photos for crime prevention affects a particularly vulnerable group whose legal certainty the plan explicitly wants to strengthen. The counter-proposal's demand that precisely this part is not implemented is therefore in line with the plan.

• integrity weighed against crime preventiondecisive»Staten har ansvar både för att skydda människor från brott och för att respektera« (party programme ↗)“The state has responsibility both to protect people from crime and to respect”
• rule of law before efficiency»Brottsbekämpning ska inte ske på bekostnad av« (party programme ↗)“Crime prevention must not happen at the expense of”
• legal certainty for asylum seekers»stärka rättssäkerheten i asylprocessen och stödet för hbtqi-flyktingar och andra sårbara grupper.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“strengthen legal certainty in the asylum process and support for LGBTQI refugees and other vulnerable groups”
• careful legal certainty review»prövas noggrant utifrån rättssäkerhet och grundläggande fri- och rättigheter.« (party programme ↗)“carefully tested on the basis of legal certainty and fundamental freedoms and rights.”

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The plan requires that all legislation is tested against its impact on personal privacy and that the restriction stands in proportion to the purpose, and characterizes strong privacy protection as indispensable. Opening the migration authority's fingerprint and photo register for biometric comparisons in criminal investigations is a privacy intrusion against people who provided the information for a completely different purpose. The plan's forceful action against crime weighs against but does not carry precisely this register.

• privacy assessment of all legislationweak support»All lagstiftning bör prövas mot dess påverkan på människors personliga integritet.« (party programme ↗)“All legislation should be tested against its impact on people's personal privacy.”
• no to rights-restricting 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 the individual's rights against the state must be defended. We therefore say no to search zones, collective punishment, reversed burden of proof, anonymous witnesses, preventive tapping 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.”
• forceful action against crime»Samhället ska inte vika sig för gängen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Society must not yield to gangs.”

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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 plan establishes that surveillance and registration should not be used for purposes other than the original reasons, which is precisely what biometric searching in the migration authority's register for crime prevention entails. It also requires that privacy intrusions are only justified when a competing interest clearly outweighs it. The counter-proposal's requirement that precisely that part be removed thus follows from the plan, even though the plan elsewhere wants to give police more tools.

• no mission creep in registersdecisive»Övervakning och registrering ska inte användas för andra syften än vad som var de ursprungliga motiven eller vad som var känt för den individ som lämnade uppgifterna.« (party programme ↗)“Surveillance and registration should not be used for purposes other than what were the original reasons or what was known to the individual who provided the data.”
• proportionality in privacy intrusions»Åtgärder som påverkar den personliga integriteten negativt är endast berättigade om ett motstående intresse väger uppenbart tyngre och åtgärden är effektiv.« (party programme ↗)“Measures affecting personal privacy negatively are only justified if a competing interest clearly outweighs it and the measure is effective.”
• privacy review of legislation»Alla nya lagförslag ska analyseras ur integritetssynpunkt.« (party programme ↗)“All new legislative proposals should be analysed from a privacy perspective.”
• more tools for police»Avlyssning och andra hemliga tvångsmedel ska kunna användas både vid misstanke om fler brott än i dag« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Wiretapping and other secret coercive measures can be used both when suspicion of more crimes than today”

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 requires a total review of secrecy rules so that authorities can share information with each other to prevent and solve crimes, and the party programme requires cooperation across agency boundaries and that all crimes be prosecuted. The counter-proposal's requirement to limit the use of the migration authority's register for crime prevention points in the opposite direction. The plan's strong protection for personal privacy is a genuine counterbalancing commitment, but the explicit requirement for information-sharing carries greater weight.

• authorities shall share informationdecisive»Total översyn av sekretessreglerna, så att myndigheter kan dela uppgifter mellan sig för att förebygga och klara upp brott.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Total review of secrecy rules, so that authorities can share information with each other to prevent and solve crimes.”
• cooperation across agency boundaries»För att möta den internationella brottsutvecklingen krävs ett väl fungerande samarbete över« (party programme ↗)“To meet international crime development requires well-functioning cooperation across”
• crimes shall be prosecuted without exception»Alla brott ska effektivt och utan undantag beivras,« (party programme ↗)“All crimes shall be effectively and without exception prosecuted,”
• protection for personal integrity»Den personliga integriteten ska ha ett starkt grundlagsskydd« (party programme ↗)“Personal integrity shall have strong constitutional protection”

The plan wants the state to stand with full force behind companies subjected to espionage and attacks by foreign powers and to strengthen the Security Police's capacity. To remove the proposed possibility for biometric comparisons would remove a tool against state-controlled disclosure of technical business secrets. The plan sees freedom and security as compatible and therefore speaks against the counter-proposal's demand.

• protection against espionagedecisive»Ge företag som är engagerade i säkerhetskänslig verksamhet bättre stöd från staten att kunna möta cyberattacker, spionage och stöldförsök från främmande makt« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Give companies engaged in security-sensitive activities better support from the state to meet cyber attacks, espionage and theft attempts from foreign powers”
• strengthened security service»Stärka Säkerhetspolisen för att öka deras förmåga att skydda den liberala demokratin och landets alla medborgare« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strengthen the Security Police to increase their capacity to protect liberal democracy and all citizens of the country”
• crimes against companies prioritized»Ge Brå i uppdrag att kartlägga brott mot företag« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Commission the Crime Survey to map crimes against companies”
• security as a condition for freedom»Frihet och trygghet går hand i hand.« (party programme ↗)“Freedom and security go hand in hand.”

The plan requires that the justice system's tools for detecting and prosecuting criminals are improved, that procedural obstacles to increased prosecution are removed and that more controls are used against the shadow economy. The counter-proposal instead wants to stop police's ability to make biometric comparisons against the immigration authority's register. It removes one such tool in a criminality directed against Swedish industry and which the plan wants to protect.

• tools for the judiciarydecisive»Rättsväsendets samverkan mellan myndigheter och verktyg för att upptäcka och lagföra kriminella ska förbättras.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The justice system's cooperation between authorities and tools for detecting and prosecuting criminals should be improved.”
• removed obstacles»Processuella hinder för att möjliggöra en ökad lagföring måste också undanröjas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Procedural obstacles to enabling increased prosecution must also be removed.”
• more controls»Bekämpa skuggsamhället och illegal migration med fler kontroller och fler utvisningar« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Combat the shadow economy and illegal migration with more controls and more deportations”
• protect Swedish industry»Prioritera svensk industri och konkurrenskraft« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Prioritize Swedish industry and competitiveness”