Titan traffic database

{{Short description|Alleged Swedish Surveillance Database}}{{Expand Swedish|Titan (databas)|date=January 2010}}

{{Notability|date=March 2014}}

The Titan traffic database is a database allegedly in use by the Swedish signals intelligence agency, the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA), according to a news report by Rapport on SVT in June 2008, based on an account from an anonymous source. The source alleged the agency had been storing "massive amounts of information" about "who have been talking to whom, but no content";

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|archivedate=2009-08-14

|publisher=SVT Rapport

|date=2008-06-16

|title=FRA lagrar svenska telesamtal och mejl [FRA stores Swedish telephone calls and e-mail]

|quote=Informationen lagras i trafikdatabasen Titan och gäller information om vem som talat med vem, inte innehållet.

}} leading to a private citizen lodging a complaint with the police. Ultimately, a prosecutor did not launch a full-scale investigation, as it was deemed not illegal at the time.{{cite news|title=Ingen förundersökning mot FRA|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |date=21 July 2008 |url=http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/ingen-forundersokning-mot-fra_1477757.svd|publisher=Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå/SvD|accessdate=10 March 2014|language=Swedish}}