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Mikov expected to answer questions about efficiency access to electronic communication

Thu, Mar 19 2009 11:08 CET

byRene Beekman

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Mikov expected to answer questions about efficiency access to electronic communication

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Interior Minister Mihail Mikov was expected to appear at a meeting of the Internal Security and Public Order Committee to answer questions about its access to and use of electronic communication data.

Head of the committee, Mincho Spasov, asked Mikov to answer four questions, Bulgarian daily Dnevnik said.

Spasov wanted to know from Mikov how many printouts of mobile phone conversations the ministry had ordered over the past four years and for how many of these printouts it had sought court permission as required under the Criminal Procedure Code.

Spasov also wanted to know from Mikov what the legal basis was by which the Interior Ministry had access to citizens' communication data and whether, at any time, a mobile operator had refused to provide the data requested.

Lastly, Spasov wanted to know the efficiency of the mobile phone conversation printouts in uncovering crimes, something that had been described as "high."

A week earlier, a scheduled meeting was postponed because Mikov was delayed after a meeting with his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dačić.

Earlier this year, Parliament accepted changed to the Law on Electronic Communications that would require police and the Interior Ministry to get court permission before being allowed to get a printout of electronic conversations. The Interior Ministry has already announced it would prepare new amendments, which would allow it to have unrestricted access again.

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