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"EU phone record plan in trouble
EU plans to make telecommunications companies store details of calls and e-mail traffic for a year or more were criticised by the industry on Thursday.
European interior ministers meeting in Newcastle heard that the measure would be hugely expensive and would violate EU data protection laws.
The proposal is part of an EU plan to fight terrorism, and the UK had hoped it would become law by the end of 2005.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke said it was a 'tricky political question'.
Earlier in the day he had expressed confidence that the concerns harboured by some EU countries - about the cost and invasion of civil liberties - could be overcome by the end of the two-day meeting. "
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