Midfield Party backs plan to retain all internet traffic

The leader of the Midfield Party welcomes the prime minister’s plan to introduce regulations requiring the online activity of everyone in the Faroe Islands to be stored for one year, KVF reports.

Steffan Klein Poulsen has pushed for legal authority to identify all Faroese people online.

Although he opposes the installation of surveillance cameras, Poulsen says online crime is so serious that police must be given the tools needed to catch offenders.

He says the reason he opposes surveillance cameras but supports online identification and the retention of data for one year is that police currently lack the means to uncover serious internet crime.

Poulsen also believes that rules governing access to this type of data and other sensitive information should be significantly tightened.