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EU wants data retained to help fight against crime

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

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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