Minister wants telecommunications operators to help finance provision of data on users

The interior minister, Frantisek Bublan, says the government will try to persuade Czech telecommunications operators to help finance the provision of data on users, as part of the state's anti-terrorism strategy. Operators now keep such data for three months, but under proposed European Union legislation data would be kept for 12 months; this would cost the state a great deal in additional charges, said Mr Bublan, who was speaking at a meeting of EU interior ministers in England.

Author: Ian Willoughby