During the weekend of 7-8 Sept 2024, I went flying with one of my students.
I took these pictures, which, of course, I couldn’t share with anyone because Swedish regulations strictly forbid such reckless behavior.
After submitting a permit application to share these absolutely top-secret pictures, I patiently waited for a mere 4 months to finally receive approval.
This process is, naturally, of the utmost importance. After all, without it, some foreign adversary might exploit these pictures to launch a devastating attack on Sweden’s vital infrastructure. You’ll be relieved to know that the highly classified details in these pictures are totally unavailable on public platforms like Google, Bing, or Apple Maps.
But now, the wait is over! Four months later, I’m finally authorized to share these utterly unremarkable pictures with you.
Enjoy the pictures (and the sarcasm)!
Not sure I got the joke, but nice photos. It could be Florida 
Indeed. Nice photos and it looks like a lovely location. But you’ll have to explain a bit more! Who says you can’t publish the photos and who did you need to get permission from?
Are these in some restricted military zone and makes it illegal to publish them without prior permission?
Dimme wrote:
because Swedish regulations strictly forbid such reckless behavior
All 4 photos show the same village. It is a beautiful picture, indeed. But I don’t get the sarcasm of your post.
Any aerial pictures taken in Sweden are illegal to share with anyone without prior permission.
You have to apply for permit to publish them at a governmental agency, and they have to review the material and approve your application before you can share any pictures with anyone.
A few years ago it was possible to obtain the right to self-approve pictures, basically confirming you haven’t filmed any sensitive locations, and that’s how I used to upload videos to my YouTube channel. They have since removed this possibility, and now every single picture and video has to be approved by this governmental agency, which is a very slow and tedious process.
My post was made to point at the absurdity of this process.
Is this written somewhere in the Swedish AIP?
I don’t think so, and I don’t think it has to be.
It’s part of the law:
https://www.lantmateriet.se/en/dissemination-permit/
This law is widely ignored and very weakly enforced.
Maybe it’s good that my phone’s camera resolution is not so great, they won’t be able to figure out what or where they are taken.
