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Surveillance document disowned

"It is not ours" says the Commission. Nor apparently did it come from the Danish presidency. "That is certainly not the proposal we tabled," said an official in the Ministry of Justice in Copenhagen. Nobody wants to admit to having penned the framework proposal on traffic data which has recently led to lurid headlines about Big Brother living in Brussels.

The document, leaked to the NGO Statewatch which monitors civil liberties in the EU, advocates keeping records of e-mails and telepho...

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