by Qutb » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:09 am
The Guardian:<br><br>In Brussels, the home secretary, Charles Clarke, won the backing of EU governments to accelerate work on his controversial proposals for the compulsory storage of billions of records of personal email, mobile phone calls and texts.<br><br>Mr Clarke also disclosed that such mobile phone and email records were proving a "material factor" in the security services' attempts to build up a picture of the relationships of the London bombers and their wider network.<br><br>EU interior ministers also agreed to accelerate a package of work on the introduction of electronic fingerprints on existing identity cards, exchanging information on lost or stolen explosives and passports, and swapping advance airline passenger lists.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1528086,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/attack...86,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
