On 4 September, Chief Judge Johan Sjöö submitted an interim report from the review of the law on signals intelligence in defence intelligence activities to Defence Minister Pål Jonson. The European Court of Human Rights found deficiencies in the regulation of signals intelligence in a ruling on 25 May 2021. The task, for this part of the investigation, has analysed what measures should be taken to address the deficiencies identified by the European Court of Human Rights, according to a press release from the Ministry of Defence on 4 September.

On 22 November 2012, Johan Sjöö was appointed by the government as Deputy Chief of Security Police at the Swedish Security Service. On 14 December 2016, he was appointed by the government as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeal for Skåne and Blekinge. On 23 February the following year, Charlotte von Essen, now Chief of the Swedish Security Service, was appointed as Deputy Chief of Security Police.

According to the press release from the Ministry of Defence, the investigation proposes that the three deficiencies identified by the European Court of Human Rights should be addressed by introducing through legislation

- a new decision-making body within the Swedish Defence Intelligence Commission responsible for conducting the control of signals intelligence when an individual has requested such control, - an explicit condition that personal integrity must be considered when transferring personal data to a recipient abroad, and - an explicit destruction requirement also for recordings or notes of data that do not contain personal data, if they are deemed irrelevant to signals intelligence activities.

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