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Bilateral agreements on US access to member states' information on phone calls and emails are already in place (Photo: European Commission)

US could access EU data retention information

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 ter...

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Bilateral agreements on US access to member states' information on phone calls and emails are already in place (Photo: European Commission)

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