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March 7, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Data retention “reflection process”: Council working documents

A number of “working documents” discussed as part of the Council of the EU's “reflection process” on the mandatory retention of telecommunications data have been released following an access to documents request submitted to the Council by EDRi member Statewatch.

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July 23, 2019 · Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Privacy and confidentiality

Civil society calls for a proper assessment of data retention

In preparation of a possible proposal for new legislation, the European Commission is conducting informal dialogues with different stakeholders to research about the possibilities of data retention legislation that complies with the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). As part of these […]

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November 17, 2010

Data retention regime in discussion all over Europe

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Diskussion der Vorratsdatenspeicherung quer durch Europa | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2357] While in Germany the Minister of Justice rejects the current data retention regime, Sweden is preparing to implement it. In the meantime, the European Commission is organizing a public debate on the review of the directive, but has delayed its […]

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April 20, 2011

Top 10 misleading statements of the European Commission on data retention

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdaten: Zehn irreführende Behauptungen der Europäischen Kommission | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.8_Vorratsdaten_Die_zehn%20irrefuehrendsten_Behauptungen_der_EU-Kommission] The European Commission adopted its evaluation report on the Data Retention Directive this week. In anticipation of the Commission to hide the numerous failures of the Directive by omission and dissemblance, EDRi produced a “shadow report” providing a more […]

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December 2, 2009

Civil liberties groups ask EU to repeal data retention directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Bürgerrechtsgruppen fordern die Widerrufung der Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung von der EU| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1606] Civil liberties groups European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the German Working Group on Data Retention (AK Vorrat) are calling on the European Union to repeal the 2006 directive on the data retention of electronic communications. In […]

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June 7, 2019 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Data Retention: EU Commission inconclusive about potential new legislation

On 6 June 2019, representatives from eight civil society organisations (including EDRi members) met with officials from the European Commission (EC) Directorate General of Home Affairs (DG HOME) to discuss data retention. This meeting, according to the EC officials, was just another one in a series of meetings that DG HOME is holding with different […]

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July 28, 2010

WP29 criticizes the implementation of the EU data retention directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [WP29 Datenschutzgruppe kritisiert Umsetzung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2089] Article 29 Working Party (WP29) adopted during their meeting on 12-14 July 2010 a report on the implementation of the European data retention directive 2006/24/EC reaching the conclusion that the directive is currently not applied in a homogenous manner by […]

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December 5, 2005

Final push for single EP vote on data retention

Behind closed doors, representatives of the 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 have agreed to introduce an unprecedented law (directive) on mandatory data retention in the EU. The groups have agreed to introduce mandatory retention for fixed […]

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June 13, 2018 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Litigation against the Danish government over data retention

Despite two rulings from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in 2014 and 2016 against general and undifferentiated (blanket) data retention, a majority of EU Member States still have national data retention laws in place. Denmark is one these Member States.

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December 13, 2017 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

The UK discusses data retention again

Rather bizarrely, the UK appears to be taking a more diligent approach to the application of EU law on data retention than the European Commission. While the Commission sits on its hands as individual Member States adopt increasingly outlandish and illegal data retention proposals – such as a new Italian law that imposes data retention […]

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January 15, 2020 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Indiscriminate data retention considered disproportionate, once again

EDRi’s initial reaction on the press release of the AG Opinion on data retention Today’s Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Advocate General’s Opinions continue the firmly established case-law of the CJEU considering mass collection of individuals communications data incompatible with EU law. The Advocate General reaffirms that blanket retention of telecommunication data […]

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June 4, 2008

Dutch Parliament lowers data retention term to 12 months

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Dutch Parliament has lowered the data retention term in its implementation of the Data Retention directive to 12 months. The law has still to pass the Dutch Senate, which has been more critical of data retention in the last four years. A lot is still unclear […]

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