No Tech for Apartheid Sweden





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No Tech For Apartheid Europe is a coalition of tech workers, students and technologists in Europe 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.

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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.

This chapter brings together workers across companies to demand transparency, force ethical limits, and protect those who say no.

Where this matters

Where this matters in Sweden.

Swedish authorities and Swedish-procured systems already touch occupation, surveillance, and the Israeli arms industry. Below, three documented contracts.

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.
- Nordic Times · 2025-11-04
- Sveriges riksdag · 2025-11-06
Defence 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).
- DIMSE (New Profile) · 2025-02-01
Defence integrators
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Rafael's Litening targeting pods are 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.
- DIMSE (New Profile) · 2025-02-01

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No Tech for Apartheid Europe — Sweden

Tech work is never neutral.

Where this matters in Sweden.

Palantir Technologies

Elbit Systems

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems