14 DAY TRIAL // The Swedish authorities are demanding the Mountain View company private information although they are still trying to promote a special legislation to obtain the details. However, Google refused to provide the information, sustaining that this requirement is incompatible with the "western democracy", as The Local reported. Because there is already a proposal to promote the law, the Google representatives warned the authorities that the company will refuse to make any investments in the region if the law receives the approval.
"We have contacted Swedish authorities to give our view of the proposal and we have made it clear that we will never place any servers inside Sweden's borders if the proposal goes through," Fleischer told Internet World according to The Local. "We simply cannot compromise our users' integrity by allowing Swedish authorities access to data that may not even concern Swedish activity," he added.
Google sustained that the company wants to work in a democratic world without any sign of dictatorship and laws that require private information about the users of the company. "The proposal stems from a tradition begun by Saudia Arabia and China and simply has no place in a western democracy," the Google employee sustained according to The Local. "Sometimes Google needs to take a clear stance and my impression is that everybody has listened very intently to what we have had to say."
Some time ago, Google took a decision that is 100 percent incompatible with the Swedish authorities' request: the search technology will make the users' logs anonymous by replacing some private information after about 18 months since they are recorded. The evolution of the case is quite interesting because the Mountain View company warns that they intend to block the upcoming investments for Sweden if the authorities vote the law that would force them to provide private information.