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The Royal Automobile Club (KAK) welcomes the government’s decision to restrict commercial search services that are used by criminals to commit crimes such as car theft.
“But that’s not enough”, according to the chairman of the association’s expert council.
Search services help criminals find cars and car parts to steal using data from the Swedish Transport Agency’s vehicle register, according to KAK.
“Sweden is completely unique in providing this type of crime tool and it is therefore a very welcome first step that the government is now making access to data on vehicle ownership more difficult,” says Anders Ydstedt, chairman of KAK’s expert council, in a press release and continues:
“But it is not enough to close the private search services, also the car register must, like in other countries, be made more difficult to access”.
KAK now assumes that the investigator reaches the same conclusion as the association.
It has pursued the issue for several years and wants the vehicle register to only be open to, for example, parking companies, insurance companies and car dealers.
It was on Saturday that Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) announced the news. However, the commercial sites are protected by the Freedom of Speech Act, which means that changes will take time.