Results for node/retention

December 14, 2011

Austria: Petition against Data Retention Directive

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Österreichische Bürger_inneninitiative gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Oesterreichische_Buerger_inneninitiative_gegen_die_Vorratsdatenspeicherung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] Today, 14 December 2011, the Austrian Arbeitskreis Vorratsdaten (Working Group against Data Retention Austria – AKVorrat.at) handed over a petition to the Austrian Parliament, asking for the government to be obliged to engage against the Data Retention Directive at the EU […]

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December 5, 2005

EDRI and PI call on EP to reject data retention

European Digital Rights and Privacy International are urgently calling on the individual members of the European Parliament to reject the misguided compromise proposal on data retention. Party leaders of the christian-democrats and social-democrats in the parliament have agreed behind closed doors to allow for mandatory data retention of telephony and internet data for a period […]

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June 20, 2012

Austria: Data retention petition ignored by the Parliament

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Österreich: Parlament ignoriert Bürgerinitiative zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Oesterreich_Parlament_ignoriert_Buergerinitiative_zur_Vorratsdatenspeicherung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] The Austrian Working Group on Data Retention counters the lack of responsiveness to citizens’ political participation with even more participation. Albeit gaining support of over 100 000 citizens, the Austrian citizens’ petition against data retention has been deferred to the […]

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July 3, 2013 · Blogs

European Court of Justice data retention cases to be heard on 9 July

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EuGH-Anhörung zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.13_EuGH-Anhoerung_zur_Vorratsdatenspeicherung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130703] On 9 July 2013, the European Court of Justice will have a hearing before the Grand Chamber with two joined cases on the validity of the data retention directive (2006/24/EC). The two cases were brought by the Irish High Court (C-293/12 Digital Rights […]

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June 21, 2006

German Parliament rejects motion against data retention

On 20 June the German Parliament rejected a resolution that would have requested the federal government to join the action for annulment of the EU telecommunications data retention directive at the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The text had been introduced by the opposition parties Greens, Liberals and Left Party and was supported by 133 […]

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November 30, 2011

ENDitorial: Advocate General on Data Retention: Strange answer&question

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Generalanwalt zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung – Seltsame Fragen & Antworten | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.23_ENDitorial_Generalanwalt_zur_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_Seltsame_Fragen_und_Antworten?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111130] The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice recently issued an opinion on the case of Bonnier Audio vs Perfect Communication Sweden (case no. C-461/10). The question to be answered was whether data retention Directive and/or […]

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November 21, 2007

German Parliament adopted the data retention law

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German Federal Parliament adopted on 10 November 2007 the law that implements the EU data retention directive in the German legislation by amending the current wire tapping legislation. This has triggered a strong reaction of the opposition and civil society, more than 13 000 citizens signing […]

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June 3, 2015 · Blogs

Data retention: German government tries again

Even before the parliamentary summer recess starting on 4 July, the German government wants to push a national law on data retention through the German Bundestag. After the Ministry of Justice presented so-called guidelines in mid-April, and a complete draft law only a month later, the Parliament is now supposed to debate and pass this […]

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July 19, 2016 · Blogs

European Court confirms: Strict safeguards essential for data retention

Today, on 19 July 2016, the Advocate General (AG) Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an Opinion on a case Tele2 Sverige AB v Post- och telestyrelsen (C-203/15) that deals with data retention obligations that were imposed by law on a Swedish telecom provider. The Court was […]

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October 21, 2009

Romania: Data retention law declared unconstitutional

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rumänien: Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung für verfassungswidrig erklärt | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1552] The Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) announced on 7 October 2009 that it took the decision to consider unconstitutional the Romanian implementation of the data retention directive. The Romanian data retention law has been in force since the beginning of […]

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June 4, 2008

Hungarian Data Retention Law – challenged at the Constitutional Court

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) has filed its complaint with the Constitutional Court requesting an ex post examination for unconstitutionality and the annulment of the data retention provisions of Act C of 2003 on electronic communications. On 15 March 2008, the regulations implementing the 2006/24/EC Directive […]

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January 12, 2011

ENDitorial: EDRi's data retention workshop at CCC

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: EDRi-Workshop zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung auf dem CCC | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2496] Three EDRi members,Netzwerk Neue Medien (Ralf Bendrath), Bits of Freedom (Axel Arnbak) and Panoptykon Foundation (Katarzyna Szymielewicz), together with one observer Patrick Breyer from AK Vorrat, gave a talk on data retention and hosted a workshop for activists during […]

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