The Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) has filed at least three criminal reports with police over suspicions that conscripts have revealed national security secrets via posts on social media networks.
According to Yle's information, each of the cases relate to the conscripts filming or photographing in classified locations while on duty, and then posting the content on their social media accounts.
Each of the suspected cases took place during 2023, in what are believed to be the first such incidents of their kind where conscripts are suspected of revealing state secrets.
The minimum penalty for such an offence is four months in prison.
No tightening of rules
An FDF spokesperson told Yle that there has been no deliberate tightening of the regulations on what conscripts can film or post online.
"Of course, the guidelines do get updated over time, as will the content of the conscripts' training, but we are talking more about fine-tuning than about any dramatic changes," Tuomas Pulsa, head of the FDF's online communications unit, said.
The investigations into the suspected offences will be carried out by police, but were first reported by the FDF.
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