Postimees Digest, Tuesday, May 7
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Randpere denies leaking central bank materials.
Member of the supervisory board of the Bank of Estonia Valdo Randpere claims that supervisory board chairman Jaan Männik's accusations, according to which Randpere disclosed secret meeting protocols, are baseless. "I have never leaked any kind of central bank supervisory board materials," said Randpere. The politician added that Männik must nevertheless know that his "undignified" behavior cannot remain a secret in a situation where he is harassing people on a solely personal level. Randpere is referring to a supervisory board meeting where Männik allegedly used strong language to criticize head of the bank's internal audit department Henn Ott who was not present at the meeting.
Data protectors conclude Tallinn public transport proceedings.
The Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate has concluded supervision proceedings of Tallinn's public transport IT system. The agency's analysis introduces changes pertaining to storage of personal information of passengers according to which the city can store names of stops where people enter public transport vehicles for a maximum of seven days while general validation data will remain in the system for two years for the purposes of handling possible misdemeanor proceedings and client complaints. In addition, ticket inspectors can no longer see what people's travel fare concessions are based on. The city initially planned to store public transport statistics of people for a period of seven years.