Nokia is evil claim
More than
200 Finns protested against a law backed by Nokia that would give employers the
right to read workers' emails if wrongdoing is suspected.
The law is expected
appear before the Finnish parliament later this month but the demonstrators, who
were mostly young adults are blaming Nokia for the law. Anton Tamminen, one
of the demonstration organisers, told AFP that the law weakens employees' basic
rights and would impact everybody using information networks. The local press
claimed that Nokia had threatened to leave Finland if the law was not
introduced, although the phone giant denied this.
However there was no doubt
it was involved. The name of the law “Lex Nokia” refers to a case in which the
mobile phone maker asked police to investigate whether some of its employees had
emailed classified information to a Chinese competitor.
The press claimed
that Nokia had breached the law by trying to find proof for their suspicions,
but coppers said Nokia had done nothing wrong. Either way Nokia wanted the law
clarified so that it could carry out such investigations.