Results for node/retention

February 27, 2004

UK government welcomes report about data retention

The UK Government has given a guarded welcome to a review of its data retention powers. The review came from the Newton Committee, which was set up by the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 that created these powers. The Committee, even though empowered to revoke some powers, supports the principle of data retention for […]

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November 17, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

New Belgian data retention law: a European blueprint?

On 21 April 2021, the Belgian Constitutional Court canceled the country’s data retention law, which has allowed every Belgian’s telecom, location and internet metadata to be retained for 12 months, for its potential use in criminal investigations. The Belgian Constitutional Court followed the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) judgment released a few months earlier, which declared that practice of general and indiscriminate retention of personal data illegal (for the third time).

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February 2, 2006

Commission refuses to do an impact assessment on the data retention

In a public answer to a written question by Charlotte Cederschiöld (PPE-DE) on timeframe of the impact assessment of the Data Retention Directive, the European Commission has stated that such an assessment will not take place because ” it will not provide any added value”. The European Parliament has adopted on 14 December 2005 a […]

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October 6, 2020 · Highlights | Press releases | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Press release: The data retention regimes of France, United Kingdom and Belgium are illegal says CJEU

Note: This quick reaction is based on the Court’s press release. A more thorough analysis of the judgement will be published later this week.

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February 11, 2009

Data retention directive has the correct legal basis

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 10 February 2009 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that the data retenion directive was correctly adopted on the basis of the EC Treaty as it relates predominantly to the functioning of the internal market. This was the conclusion of the court in the suit […]

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August 30, 2006

Germany sticks to its telecommunication data retention plans

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Although concerns have been expressed by the scientific services of the German Parliament’s lower chamber on the implementation of the EU directive on data retention, the Ministry of Justice continues with its work on a draft bill in this matter. Doubts have been expressed by the scientists […]

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August 25, 2004

Call for participation: data retention and copyright

The deadline is nearing for two important consultation rounds from the European Commission, on mandatory data retention and on copyright. European Digital Rights is working hard on a thorough answer on the EU plans for mandatory retention of all internet and telephony traffic data. The document will be made publicly available on the EDRI website, […]

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February 29, 2012

ENDitorial: Member States turn a drama into a crisis for Commissioner Malmström on data retention

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Mitgliedsstaaten stürzen Kommissarin Malmström in Sachen Vorratsdatenspeicherung in die Krise | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_ENDitorial?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] Soon after the current college of Commissioners took office in 2009, all 27 Members travelled to Luxemburg to take a solemn oath to respect the Charter of Fundamental Rights in all of their duties. One […]

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November 19, 2008

Romania adopts data retention law

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the adoption of the draft law on data retention by the Chamber of Deputies on 4 November 2008, the Romanian President made the final step in adopting the law on 17 November. From now on, it is just a matter of time until the law will […]

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May 18, 2011

Data retention in EU Council Meeting

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EU-Ministerrat diskutiert Vorratsdaten | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.10_EU-Ministerrat_diskutiert_Vorratsdatenspeicherung] The EU Council Working Group of Justice and Home Affairs had a first discussion on 12 May 2011 on the European Commission implementation report on the data retention directive. The Commission agreed that the implementation has been uneven, both in terms of retention […]

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March 12, 2015 · Blogs

Dutch data retention law struck down – for now

Published originally by EDRi-member Bits of Freedom  And then everything went BANG: from our Twitter-timeline to the champagne bottle at our office. This morning the court annulled the data retention law. Effective immediately. But what exactly did the judge say and what will happen now? The data-retention law requires telecom providers to save communication- and […]

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May 7, 2014 · Blogs

Swiss data retention visualisation

The Swiss civil society group Digital Society Switzerland is working on building opposition to the practice of the “data retention” – the requirement for telecommunications companies to store for six months meta-data (such as information on who emailed or called whom, and where the telephones were located) and to make it available for law enforcement […]

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