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Sat, Feb 11 2012
Second consultation amendment Law on Electronic Communications underway
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Bulgaria's Interior Ministry started its second round of consultations on proposed amendments to the Law on Electronic Communications on November 10, Bulgarian daily Dnevnik said.
Consultations took place behind closed doors because of a need for more concrete discussions, a ministry spokesperson was quoted by Dnevnik as saying.
The proposed amendments would implement the European Union Data Retention Directive and have been cited by the ministry as necessary to solve certain types of organised crime, specifically kidnapping.
Under the amendments, the Interior Ministry would issue so-called print-outs of electronic communications through its own Directorate for Operational and Technical Support (DOTS), instead of having to go through mobile and internet service providers to get the print-outs as is the current practice.
According to Alexandar Kashumov of the Access to Information Society, most worrying in the proposed amendments was the lowering of judicial control. Permission to use provided print-outs would be granted by individual district courts, not by the chair of the district court, effectively negating judicial review, Kashumov was quoted by Dnevnik as saying.
The first round of consultations took place on November 2 2009, after which Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov proposed to collect written statements from interested parties before a second round would be held on November 10.
Consultations took place behind closed doors because of a need for more concrete discussions, a ministry spokesperson was quoted by Dnevnik as saying.
The proposed amendments would implement the European Union Data Retention Directive and have been cited by the ministry as necessary to solve certain types of organised crime, specifically kidnapping.
Under the amendments, the Interior Ministry would issue so-called print-outs of electronic communications through its own Directorate for Operational and Technical Support (DOTS), instead of having to go through mobile and internet service providers to get the print-outs as is the current practice.
According to Alexandar Kashumov of the Access to Information Society, most worrying in the proposed amendments was the lowering of judicial control. Permission to use provided print-outs would be granted by individual district courts, not by the chair of the district court, effectively negating judicial review, Kashumov was quoted by Dnevnik as saying.
The first round of consultations took place on November 2 2009, after which Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov proposed to collect written statements from interested parties before a second round would be held on November 10.
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In order for DOTS to provide this information without haing to ask phone and internet companies, would appear to show that all communications and their content are currently both monitored and recorded/filed by the state as a normal procedure (like Stasi/KGB etc). The argument is only over who can permit the information to be used in court etc.