Court blocks Swedish tax agency’s demands for BankID location data
Stockholm’s Administrative Court of Appeal has overturned demands by Sweden’s Tax Agency for SEB and Handelsbanken to hand over customers’ BankID records, including GPS locations and IP addresses.
The orders covered occasions when a number of customers used BankID, Sweden’s digital identification service, with organisations other than their bank. The agency had threatened financial penalties if the banks did not provide the information.
In its 13 November announcement, the appeal court said there was no legal basis for compelling the banks to supply those details. It reversed judgments by Stockholm’s Administrative Court and quashed the Tax Agency’s orders in cases 4660-25 and 4662-25.
Judge Fredrik Hammarström said the law governing the agency’s access to such information should be interpreted cautiously because it involves an intrusion into individuals’ affairs.
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