The Czech Republic's Constitutional Court (ÚS) last month overturned parts of an antiterrorism law requiring telephone operators to retain data on all calls, faxes, text messages and e-mail exchanges. The change has brought on "surrealistic reports in the media that have underlined the difference between myth and reality," writes Miroslav U?i?a? for Czech Position. According to U?i?a?, the ÚS ruling makes it clear that the major sticking point for the court was the breadth of institutions that had access to the data. And, while police are lamenting the loss of easy access to the information, they are not, U?i?a? says, breaking out numbers on how many crimes were uncovered and criminals punished because of the law.
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