Support for intelligence activities rises after attacks in Paris
The terror attacks in Paris have reinstated a sense of urgency to the ongoing efforts to revise the intelligence laws of Finland. Doubts, however, have been voiced over the efficiency of online intelligence activities especially due to a rapid growth in the quantity of data transmitted over the Internet and the use of increasingly sophisticated encryption methods.
Colonel Martti J. Kari, the deputy director of the Finnish Defence Intelligence Agency, reminds in an e-mail to Helsingin Sanomat that it remains difficult to gauge the possible scope of intelligence activities to be conducted by Finland.