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June 2, 2022 · Blogs | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Stop data retention in Germany and the European Union

Germany must show true leadership and set a strong precedent in the EU against the use of mass data retention to fight serious crimes. Mass data retention is one of the most privacy-intrusive instruments that treat everybody as criminals by presumption. It is high time that European governments implement rights-respecting and proportionate solutions in police investigations. Read the open letter EDRi and 12 civil society organisations sent to the German ministers of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to urge them to stop the use of data retention practices in crime investigations.

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January 14, 2015 · Blogs

Danish government plans to re-introduce session logging

The Danish response to the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the Data Retention Directive was fairly limited. On 2 June 2014, the Ministry of Justice produced a legal analysis saying that there was no reason to believe that the Danish data retention law was in conflict with the […]

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August 26, 2009

Belgium: Minister of Justice wants 2 years of data retention

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Belgien: Justizminister will zweijährige Vorratsdatenspeicherung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1500] Belgium is starting again to discuss the implementation of the data retention directive, suggesting a 2-year retention period for electronic communication traffic data, according with the Flemish newspaper De Tijd. The initial discussion in 2008 did not passed the criticism received […]

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July 13, 2011

Dutch Senate "disappointed" with Data Retention Directive evaluation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederländischer Senat “enttäuscht” über Evaluierung der VDS-Richtlinie | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_Niederl%C3%A4ndischer_Senat_enttaeuscht_ueber_Evaluierung_der_VDS_Richtlinie?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] The same week the Dutch Senate approved a long-anticipated shortening of mandatory retention periods for internet data to six months, it published its correspondence with the Dutch Minister of Security and Justice on the Data Retention Directive evaluation by […]

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October 10, 2012

Slovak Constitutional Court receives data retention complaint

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Slowakei: Verfassungsklage gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung eingereicht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.19_Slowakei_Verfassungsklage_gegen_die_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_eingereicht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20121010] The group of Slovak MPs filed the complaint against the data retention before the Slovak Constitutional Court on 9 October 2012. They requested the Constitutional Court to rule on the local implementation of the data retention and scrutinize its conformity […]

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July 2, 2008

ECJ first hearing on data retention case

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 1 June 2008, the first hearing by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Ireland’s action for the annulment of the directive on data retention took place in Luxembourg. Ireland, later on joined by Slovakia, filed an action with ECJ against the European Council and Parliament […]

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August 2, 2006

Digital Rights Ireland Challenge to Data Retention

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Irish Government filed a challenge to the data retention directive on 6 July 2006. The challenge had been announced some time before by the Minister for Justice but was filed just before the time limit for the action had expired. The case challenges the legal basis […]

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February 9, 2011

German study finds the data retention ineffective

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutsche Studie enthüllt: Vorratsdatenspeicherung ineffektiv | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.3_AK_Vorrat_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_ineffektiv] A study of police statistics published by the German Federal Crime Agency on 26 January 2011, finds telecommunications data retention ineffective for the prosecution of serious crime. An analysis of Federal Crime Agency statistics published on 27 January 2011 by German […]

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February 9, 2011

UK Supreme Court to hear DNA cases

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Oberster Britischer Gerichtshof prüft DNS-Fälle | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.3_Britische_DNS_Rechtsfaelle] Following a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the UK Coalition Government has recently stated its intention to dramatically reduce the retention period of DNA data. In 2008, the ECtHR ruled that a blanket policy of retaining DNA […]

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October 5, 2005

NL: Lower House hearing on data retention

On 28 September 2005 the Dutch Lower House commission on judicial affairs organised a public hearing about data retention, preceding the official debate on the need and usefulness of data retention on 5 October 2005. The commission invited two representatives from law enforcement, one from the telecom and internet world each as well as EDRI-member […]

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April 6, 2011

Czech Constitutional Court rejects data retention legislation

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Tschechisches Verfassungsgericht hebt Vorratsdatenspeicherung auf | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.7_Tschechien_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_verfassungswidrig] The Czech Constitutional Court declared national data retention legislation unconstitutional on 31 March 2011. This is part of the Electronic Communications Act and its implementing legislation according to which records of e-mails, phone calls, and SMS as well as websites accesses […]

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November 3, 2005

European Parliament: no retention of internet data

Behind closed doors, the European Parliament is engaged in a monumentous battle with the Council of ministers of Justice over the plans for mandatory data retention. After a first meeting of the leading parliamentary committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on Monday 24 October, it looks like a majority of social-democrats, greens […]

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