Results for node/retention

July 2, 2015 · Blogs

European Digital Rights asks the European Commission to investigate illegal data retention laws in the EU

European Digital Rights (EDRi) this morning sent a letter to European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, asking the European Commission to investigate the data retention laws in EU Member States which appear to be illegal in light of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling on this issue from 8 April last […]

November 29, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

EU Member States plan to ignore EU Court data retention rulings

Documents made publicly available through EDRi member Statewatch reveal that EU Member States are exploring all possible options to keep, and in fact expand, their current data retention regimes. The general plan is based on a new concept of ”restricted data retention”, which is really blanket data retention with a new name, along with amendments […]

November 29, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Eurojust: No progress to comply with CJEU data retention judgements

A recently published Eurojust report on data retention in Europe confirms that EU Member States failed to make meaningful progress towards complying with fundamental rights standards, as clarified by the two Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rulings banning blanket data retention.

March 8, 2017 · Blogs

Denmark: Our data retention law is illegal, but we keep it for now

On 2 March 2017, the Danish Minister of Justice appeared before the Legal Affairs Committee of the Danish Parliament to answer questions about the implications of the Tele2 data retention ruling (joined cases C-203/15 and C-698/15) from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In his statement to the committee, the Minister started […]

August 13, 2004 · Blogs

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May 2, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

EU Member States fight to retain data retention in place despite CJEU rulings

EU Member States are still working to adopt their position on the ePrivacy Regulation proposed by the European Commission in January 2017. A number of draft compromise texts have been published by the Council Presidency before discussions in the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society (WP TELE).

January 16, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

EU Member States willing to retain illegal data retention

With its judgments in April 2014 (Digital Rights Ireland ) and December 2016 (Tele2 ), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that blanket data retention was illegal under EU law. Rather than repealing their illegal data retention laws, EU Member States have instead adopted a tactic of ignoring the highest court […]

June 5, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Czech Constitutional Court rejects complaint on data retention

Czech EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) has fought for 14 years against Czech implementation of the controversial EU data retention Directive which was declared invalid by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). After years of campaigning and many hard legislative battles, the fight has finally come to an end: on 22 May […]

May 31, 2017 · Blogs

EU discusses future of data retention: “Indiscriminate retention no longer possible”

This is a translation of an article originally written by Anna Biselli on netzpolitik.org. Translation: Anna Biselli, Kirsten Fiedler. The German government is maintaining its unswerving commitment to make communications data retention obligatory from July 2017 onwards. Meanwhile, different EU level groups and institutions are discussing if or how data retention measures are compatible with […]

June 28, 2017 · Blogs

Denmark allows massive retention of location data for mobile internet

On 24 May 2017, the Danish telecom regulator announced its decision concluding that the retention of location data for mobile internet usage is lawful. With the decision, the regulator allowed for massive data retention, which seriously undermines citizens’ right to privacy, since it means they can be tracked at all times and the data is […]

June 4, 2014 · Blogs

Denmark: Data retention is here to stay despite the CJEU ruling

Following the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling on 8 April 2014, which declared the data retention directive 2006/24/EC invalid, the Danish parliament asked the government about the implications for the Danish data retention law. On 2 June 2014, the government presented its response in a 30-page legal analysis and at a […]

February 10, 2010

Update on the Belgian transposition of the Data Retention Directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgien: Neues zur Umsetzung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1702] The transposition of the Data Retention Directive in Belgium has remained stagnant for a long time. Following a public consultation in May 2008 on a first draft law proposal and draft royal decree to transpose this Directive into Belgian law, […]