Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:05:15 +0200Mayor Hřib: ‘Big Brother’ won’t be watching vacant Prague property owners’ electricity metershttps://english.radio.cz/mayor-hrib-big-brother-wont-be-watching-vacant-prague-property-owners-8134369© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalThe Prague City Hall coalition is due to meet on Friday to discuss a controversial proposal to collect anonymous data from electricity meters to identify vacant housing units. Mayor Zdeněk Hřib of the Pirate Party, which is behind the move, says despite alarm calls by his coalition partners, the intention was never to try to identify the owners of vacant properties – whether ‘foreign speculators’ or local investors – in order to tax them.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/elektromery.jpg?timestamp=1761831249 Mayor Hřib: ‘Big Brother’ won’t be watching vacant Prague property owners’ electricity meters https://english.radio.cz/mayor-hrib-big-brother-wont-be-watching-vacant-prague-property-owners-8134369 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9