No Tech for Apartheid Sweden
Tech workers in Sweden refusing to build apartheid infrastructure.
No Tech For Apartheid Europe is a coalition of tech workers, students, and technologists across Europe. We organize against the militarization of technology and its use in systems of apartheid, surveillance, and oppression.
This is the Sweden chapter of that coalition, the European counterpart to the US-based No Tech For Apartheid.
Dispatch
Kickoff Meeting
The chapter's first open meeting. For tech workers, designers, researchers, and students pushing back against the militarization of technology and its use in surveillance, apartheid, and warfare. Come meet the chapter, hear what's underway, and find where you fit.
For questions, reach the chapter at notechapartheidsweden@proton.me
Mission
Tech work is never neutral.
Cloud services, AI models, and surveillance infrastructure built in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö don't ship into a vacuum. They're exported, resold, and integrated into systems that enable violations of international law.
As technologists in Sweden, we have a responsibility to know where our work ends up. We reject the idea that our role is merely to "deliver". We refuse to build, maintain, or normalize the tools that uphold apartheid, surveillance, and oppression, in Sweden or anywhere else.
Where this matters
Where this matters in Sweden.
Swedish authorities and Swedish-procured systems already enable surveillance, arms, and occupation. Below, three documented contracts.
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Cloud & surveillance
Palantir Technologies
Polismyndigheten (the Swedish Police Authority) has used "Acus", a Swedish-adapted version of Palantir's Gotham platform, for at least five years to combine surveillance and criminal registers with data from Bank-ID, mobile operators, and social media. The Police Authority refuses to confirm or deny the relationship, citing national security.
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Defense integrators
Elbit Systems
Elbit Systems holds contracts with Försvarets materielverk (FMV) and the Swedish Armed Forces totalling over USD 228M between 2021 and 2024 for software-defined radios (USD 23M, 2021), tank ammunition (USD 27M, 2022), communication shelters (USD 48M, 2023), and the Iron Fist Active Protection System for armoured vehicles (USD 130M, 2024, via BAE Systems).
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Defense integrators
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Israeli firm Rafael Advanced Defense Systems supplies Litening targeting pods used by the Swedish Air Force on Gripen fighters; in 2024, Sweden purchased additional Litening 5 pods for USD 36.6M. In 2025, Sweden awarded Rafael a EUR 2 billion contract for Trophy active protection systems on Swedish Leopard tanks.
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