[FYI] EU wants data retained to help fight against crime

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0%2C3858%2C4484984%2C00.html

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Privacy fear over plan to store email  

EU wants data retained to help fight against crime  

Richard Norton-Taylor and Stuart Millar  

Tuesday August 20, 2002  

The Guardian  

Records of personal communications, including all emails and 
telephone calls, will be stored for at least a year under a proposal 
to be decided by EU governments next month.  

Under the plan, all telecommunications firms, including mobile phone 
operators and internet service providers, will have to keep the 
numbers and addresses of calls and emails sent and received by EU 
citizens. The information, known as traffic data, would be held in 
central computer systems and made available to all EU governments.  

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