Results for node/retention

July 15, 2009

Irish Data Retention Bill published

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Irisches Vorratsdatenspeicherungsgesetz veröffentlicht| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1465] On 6 July, the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009 was presented to the Irish Parliament. The Bill is intended to implement the Data Retention Directive and if enacted will establish a two year retention period for telephone data with a one year retention […]

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June 30, 2010

Data retention – time for evidence-based decision making

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdatenspeicherung – Zeit für evidenzbasierte Entscheidungen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2031] In June 2010 the European Parliament adopted a farcical “written declaration” ostensibly on the creation of an “early warning system” to fight pedophiles. Funded by unknown sources, the MEPs in charge (Zaborska from the Czech Republic and Motti from Italy) […]

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June 20, 2012

ENDitorial: Data retention – faint heart never won fair lady

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Vorratsdatenspeicherung – den Mutigen gehört die Welt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_ENDitorial_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_den_Mutigen_gehoert_die_Welt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] Six years ago, as a result of pressure from the UK, the European Union adopted the Data Retention Directive. The measure was intended to harmonise the EU single market for telecommunications, requiring all EU operators to retain data […]

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September 21, 2015 · Blogs

European Commission & Data Retention – a faulty basis for decision-making*?

Due to the sensitive nature of this summary, we shared it with the European Commission to allow for any corrections or clarifications that were deemed necessary before publication. The draft was updated on the basis of the feedback that was received, but not all suggestions from the Commission services were accepted by us. As a […]

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May 4, 2011

Data Retention has arrived in Austria

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Vorratsdatenspeicherung erreicht Österreich | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.9_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_erreicht_Oesterreich] While the Czech Constitutional Court has recently declared the national data retention legislation unconstitutional, the Legal Services of the German Bundestag has found it impossible to ensure the legality of the Data Retention Directive and the European Commission itself still struggles to prove […]

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May 7, 2014 · Blogs

Slovak Constitutional Court suspends data retention legislation

The European Court of Justice ruled on 8 April, in a case brought before the Court by EDRi member Digital Rights Ireland, together with the Austrian Working Group on Data Retention, that the Data Retention Directive contravenes European law. On 23 April 2014, the Slovak Constitutional Court preliminary suspended Slovak implementation of the Directive as […]

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November 5, 2009 · Blogs

Petition against data retention in Belgium

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Petition gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Belgien | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1568] Macedonian: [Петиција против задржување на податоци во Белгија | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/edri/peticija-protiv-zadrzhuvanje-na-podatoci-vo-belgija-2.html] A number of Belgian NGOs representing Internet users, lawyers, journalists, human rights activists and others on 26 October 2009 started a petition against the Belgian transposition of the EU Data Retention […]

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January 26, 2011

Romanian NGOs demand stopping data retention in Europe

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rumänische NGOs fordern einen Stopp der Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Europa | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2553] In an open letter sent to the European institutions, several Romanian NGOs, including EDRi-member APTI Romania, demanded stopping data retention in Europe, following the decisions of the Constitutional Courts in Romania and Germany. The letter asks the […]

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January 16, 2013 · Blogs

Data Retention in Austria: Constitutional Court turns to the CJEU

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [VDS in Österreich: Verfassungsgericht wendet sich an Europäischen Gerichtshof | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.1_VDS_in_Oesterreich_Verfassungsgericht_wendet_sich_ein_Europaeischen_Gerichtshof?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130125] The Austrian Constitutional Court has reservations that the EU Directive on the Retention of Data could be incompatible with the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. For this reason, the 14 constitutional judges have addressed the Court of […]

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November 6, 2019 · On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Danish data retention: Back to normal after major crisis

The Danish police and the Ministry of Justice consider access to electronic communications data to be a crucial tool for investigation and prosecution of criminal offences. Legal requirements for blanket data retention, which originally transposed the EU Data Retention Directive, are still in place in Denmark, despite the judgments from the Court of Justice of […]

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May 24, 2006

Data Retention faces growing opposition in Germany

The EU directive on mandatory retention of communications traffic data went into force as an EU law on 3 May 2006, but its transposition into national laws seems more uncertain than before. 16 of the 25 member states of the EU have declared that they will delay the retention of Internet traffic data for an […]

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August 1, 2017 · Blogs

Italy plans to extend telecoms data retention and increase censorship powers

On 19 July 2017, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament approved two amendments to existing laws. One of the amendments aims at extending telecommunications data retention to six years, while the other gives Agcom, the communications regulator, powers to order takedown and blocking of online content without judicial oversight. Data retention in Italy […]

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