Swedish data brokers claim journalists’ legal protection to evade EU law

National Administrative Procedures and DPA inactivity Would you like a license to break the law? Sweden may be your dream destination: Thanks to a loophole in national law, large data brokers like MrKoll can simply obtain a “media licence”, exempting their entire business from all obligations under the EU’s strict privacy laws. This deprives millions of Swedes of their fundamental right to privacy. noyb has now filed a complaint against MrKoll in Sweden that challenges this practice. Complaint against MrKollPress release in SwedishA highly problematic loophole in Swedish law. In Sweden, anyone can get a media license and get exempt from the GDPR. While Article 85 of the GDPR allows member states to limit the application of some elements of the GDPR in the area of journalism (to e.g. protect sources or undercover investigations), Sweden took a brute force approach to this exception. Swedish national legislation makes it extremely easy to obtain a “media licence”, even if a company's act