120,000 suffered from lack of Telenor

Approximately 120,000 customers were affected by Telenor's errors. The company has access to more personal information than the customer has given his permission. Image: Andreas Hillergren

Telenor asked his clients to connect to the website of the Swedish Tax Agency with e-ID between May 15 and June 7. What was not revealed was that Telenor, via the identity provider, had access to information about the person, such as housing and income.

– The Swedish Tax Agency warns to connect to the Swedish Tax Agency. This is a secondary connection unchecked, which means that you, as an individual, gives access to all information about you, "says Pär Rylander

The Tax Authority has blocked the ability to connect via a company. According to the Authority, there is nothing to indicate that the information was disseminated

– For example, think of someone who owns a personal data protection journal this way. Then they open the privacy, which is unfortunate. Pär Rylander

The act is not allowed by BankID rules – and has also been notified to the National Agency of Posts and Telecommunications and the Swedish Civil Protection Agency.

– We are also considering whether there are any other legal steps to be taken after this

Arlon Samuelsson, Telenor's Director of Communications, says that the service has enabled customers to get on with it. identify as payment agents.

"What happened is that you have consented to Telenor to recover a Social Security number from the Swedish Tax Agency." Due to an error, we have collected more information than we have received, but not all, no revenue.The fact that we have collected more information constitutes an incident of integrity that we have reported to the l & # 39; Data Inspection and we immediately deleted the data

– The service is closed now We regret it We made a mistake and corrected it