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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 […]

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 […]

January 18, 2006

European parliament adopts data retention directive

The European Parliament gave its final vote on 14 December 2005 on the European mandatory data retention directive. The Parliament approved the compromise that was reached between Council of Ministers of Justice (JHA Council), representatives from the Commission and the leaders in the European Parliament of the social-democrat and Christian-democrat groups. (see EDRI-gram 3.24) The […]

January 16, 2008

German data retention act challenged

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Just five days after the German President Horst Köhler approved the German data retention law that entered into force on 1 January 2008, the German Working group on data retention (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung) challenged the law in the Federal German Constitutional Court. The complaint was filed with the […]

March 1, 2006

Data Retention Directive adopted by JHA Council

The Ministers at the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council, following an agreement reached by the Council on 1 and 2 December 2005, adopted the Data Retention Directive on 21 February 2006. The Directive was adopted by the European Parliament on 14 December 2006 after the Council threatened to push for its own much tougher […]

February 7, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

A complete U-turn in jurisprudence: HADOPI and the future of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s authority

This blog post argues that, if followed by the Court, the interpretation proposed by the AG would lead to a severe weakening of the CJEU’s authority and legitimacy, more generally. This would be of great symbolic significance in an already challenging environment for the Court which is faced with increasing defiance of Member States in the field of data protection.

March 28, 2007

Google limits the search data retention period

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After consultations with privacy groups in Europe and the US, Google has decided to reduce to 18 – 24 months, the retention time for data related to users and their searches. Google is presently storing search information together with IP (Internet Protocol) addresses which can be further […]

April 12, 2006

Article 29 asks for safeguards on data retention

Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has adopted its opinion on data retention directive as adopted by the Council on 21 February 2006, pointing out major criticism to the adoption and to the present text agreed by the Parliament. The Working Party recalls its previous concerns and reservations expressed in its last Opinion 113 of […]

January 28, 2004

Italy: five years data retention

On 28 January 2004, the Italian Lower House approved of a governmental decree-law on mandatory data retention by telephone and internet companies. Government issued the decree on 24 December 2003, without any prior parliamentary debate. All data about electronic communications must now be stored for a period of 5 years. According to the privacy-group ALCEI, […]

June 20, 2007

Google answers Article 29 Working Party on data protection standards

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Google has answered several questions related to its data protection standards addressed by the Article 29 Working Party, especially on the period after which the anonymisation of the search server logs can be obtained. Initially Google announced in March 2007 a reduction of the retention period for […]

January 29, 2020 · Highlights | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

AG’s Opinion: Mass retention of data incompatible with EU law

June 30, 2004

New EU questionnaire on data retention

The working party on co-operation in criminal matters (Justice ministry officials) has issued a new questionnaire about data retention to all member states. Answers have to be given by 29 July 2004, the results will be debated in the next meeting of the working party on 27 and 28 September 2004. Clearly the Dutch presidency […]