US could access EU data retention information (not just US!!)

[NVMojo]

12.05.2006 - 09:50 CET | By Helena Spongenberg
US authorities can get access to EU citizens' data on phone calls, sms' and emails, giving a recent EU data-retention law much wider-reaching consequences than first expected, reports Swedish daily Sydsvenskan.

The EU data retention bill, passed in February after much controversy and with implementation tabled for late 2007, obliges telephone operators and internet service providers to store information on who called who and who emailed who for at least six months, aimed at fighting terrorism and organised crime.


A week later on 2-3 March, EU and US representatives met in Vienna for an informal high level meeting on freedom, security and justice where the US expressed interest in the future storage of information.

The US delegation to the meeting "indicated that it was considering approaching each member state to ensure that the data collected on the basis of the recently adopted Directive on data retention be accessible to them," according to the notes of the meeting.

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http://euobserver.com/9/21580

[Drum]

1. Oceana has always been at war with Eurasia. nt

[Daphne08]

2. Yep. 1984 has arrived... albeit, a bit late. n/t