Results for node/retention

October 5, 2005

Renewed rejection of data retention by European institutions

On 12 October the Council of ministers of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA Council) will debate about data retention once again, both about the framework decision and about the directive proposal from the European Commission. In response to the final launch of the Commission proposal on 21 September, the UK Presidency of the EU announced […]

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November 3, 2005

Article 29 WP rejects data retention once more

In a carefully worded report, the coalition of EU privacy commissioners (the Article 29 Working Party) criticises both the Council and the Commission policies on data retention. The Article 29 Working Party calls for restraint and safeguards that have to date not appeared in any national or EU policy. “The Working Party questions whether the […]

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November 22, 2006

German draft law on data retention made public

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 8 November 2006, the German Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries presented a draft law aimed at transposing the EU directive on data retention. The law would override the recent jurisprudence on IP logging by mandating the retention of traffic data for a period of six months. […]

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December 17, 2014 · Blogs

Data retention: EU Commission – guardian and enemy of the treaties

The new European Commissioner for Home Affairs plans to re-introduce new measures for the retention of telecommunications data, according to a report by German digital rights blog Netzpolitik.org. A spokesperson of the Commissioner for Home Affairs is quoted as saying that there was no longer doubt “if” there will be a directive, the only question […]

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June 1, 2011

EDPS: Data Retention Directive fails to meet data protection requirements

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EDSB: Richtlinie zur Vorratdatenspeicherung wird Datenschutzanforderungen nicht gerecht | http://bit.ly/juy3xn] Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted, on 31 May 2011, an opinion on the European Commission’s Evaluation Report on the Data Retention Directive submitted on 18 April 2011 to the Council and the European Parliament. […]

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December 1, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention

Data Retention? Advocate General says “Asked and answered!”

After the 2020 landmark ruling (La Quadrature du Net and others), one would have hoped that the Court had provided sufficiently clear conclusions with regards to the legality of data retention regimes in the EU. Nonetheless, the three referring national courts maintained their requests for preliminary rulings.

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April 22, 2015 · Blogs

Hungarian data retention case: ORG, PI & scholars file amicus briefs

EDRi member Open Rights Group (ORG), Privacy International and a group of internationally acknowledged experts filed amicus curiae briefs with the Hungarian Constitutional Court. The case has been brought by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) against two major service providers, in an attempt to force the Hungarian Constitutional Court to repeal the Hungarian Electronic […]

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January 17, 2024 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Portugal: New data retention law fails at the Constitutional court; Parliament will try for a third time

The Portuguese Constitutional Court has declared a new data retention law proposal to be unconstitutional. In response to the decision, the Parliament swiftly approved, in the beginning of the year, another dubious data retention regime, which might face the same fate - for the third time.

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January 10, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Proposal to revoke data retention filed with the Czech Court

On 20 December 2017, EDRi member Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe) filed a request with the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic to revoke the Czech data retention related legislation.

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April 19, 2012

Bonnier Audio ruling in the Court of Justice – core questions left unanswered

Ruling Bonnier Audio took the Swedish Internet service provider (ISP), Perfect Telecommunication, to court to obtain a court order to disclose the identities of alleged infringers of their intellectual property (IP) rights. As a result, the Swedish High Court asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) if, assuming such a measure was […]

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April 25, 2012

European Court of Justice ruling in the Bonnier case

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs in der Rechtssache Bonnier | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.8_Entscheidung_des_Europaeischen_Gerichtshofs_in_der_Rechtssache_Bonnier?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120507] Bonnier Audio took the Swedish Internet service provider (ISP) Perfect Telecommunication to court, to obtain an order to disclose the identities of alleged infringers of their intellectual property (IP) rights. As a result, the Swedish High Court asked […]

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December 2, 2009

Austria: BIM delivers draft act on implementing Data Retention Directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Österreich: BIM liefert Gesetzesentwurf zur Implementierung der Vorratsdatenspeicherungs-Richtlinie| http://www.unwatched.org/node/1609] In April 2009 – after the EU Commission decided to bring an action against Austria because of non-transposition of the Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC (DRD) – the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM) was assigned by the Austrian […]

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