Sharing national security information in Finland

ABSTRACT Safeguarding Finland’s national security is a collaborative function of the intelligence authorities and their clients and partners. This collaboration requires a sharing of national security information within the intelligence community, and with other public authorities – both domestic and foreign – as well as with enterprises and corporations. The first objective of this article is to distinguish norms regulating the sharing of national security information from the intelligence and data processing legislation, and to organise this legal substance into three categories: Disclosure of information in (1) national co-operation, (2) international co-operation, and for (3) crime prevention. The second objective is to identify areas of development in each of these three categories and accordingly suggest law and policy recommendations for the future.