Results for node/retention

March 26, 2008

German Constitutional Court limits data retention law

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Federal German Constitutional Court issued a preliminary decision on 19 March 2008 in the case supported by 34 000 people against the German implementation of the data retention directive. The preliminary ruling has considered that parts of the act are unconstitutional pending review. The decision does […]

April 9, 2008

EDRi joins European NGOs in asking ECJ to annul data retention directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) European Digital Rights (EDRi) has joined other 42 civil liberties NGOs and professional associations in signing the amicus curiae brief initiated by German NGO Working Group on Data Retention (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung). The action is destined to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in relation to the action […]

February 26, 2020 · Highlights | On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

ECtHR: UK Police data retention scheme violated the right to privacy

August 2, 2021 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Europe’s Data Retention Saga and its Risks for Digital Rights

It seems that despite several Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decisions in this area, the data retention saga is unlikely to come to an end any time soon. After the invalidation of its previous instrument, the 2006 Data Retention Directive, the European Commission is currently trying to devise a new plan for the retention of traffic and location data for law enforcement and security purposes in the European Union (EU). The Commission stands at a crossroad: to intervene or not to intervene, that is the question.

January 18, 2012

Romanian Senate rejects the new data retention law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Rumänien: Senat lehnt neues Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung ab | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.1_Rumaenien_Senat_lehnt_neues_Gesetz_zur_Vorratsdatenspeicherung_ab?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120127] Following the pressure of the European Commission to the Romanian authorities to implement the data retention directive and despite the decision of the Constitutional Court from 2009 against the data retention law, a new draft law has emerged, […]

September 28, 2022 · Blogs | Surveillance and data retention

New Data Retention ruling is a victory for civil society

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has announced a historic judgement today: the current telecommunications data retention in Germany violates the fundamental rights of people in the European Union. The underlying data retention law is therefore null and void.

October 20, 2005

Data retention: Council barks but cannot bite

Charles Clarke from the UK Home Office uttered some incredibly harsh threats to the European Parliament committee on civil liberties (LIBE) on 13 October, the day after the Council meeting, but his barking could not conceal the fact the ministers of Justice and Home Affairs did not have any teeth to bite with. Several national […]

April 17, 2011 · Blogs

EDRi evaluation of data retention shows it has significant costs but no benefits

In advance of the European Commission the publication of its long overdue evaluation report on the Data Retention Directive, EDRi has published its own “shadow report”. This Directive currently requires long-term indiscriminate storage of records of every electronic communication of every person in the European Union. European Digital Rights (EDRi), concludes in a parallel ‘shadow […]

April 18, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality

Hermes Center demands investigation of NAT-related data retention

On 27 March 2018, EDRi member Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights filed a request with the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) to investigate on the widespread practice of logging Network Address Translations (NAT) by most of the telecommunication operators.

July 17, 2013 · Blogs

Austria: Outsourcing data retention obligations to the US

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [VDS in Österreich: Auslagern der Speicherverpflichtung an die USA | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.14_VDS_in_Oesterreich_Auslagern_der_Speicherverpflichtung_an_die_USA?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130717] During the ECJ lawsuit against the data retention (DR) directive it became clear that DR obligations may have been outsourced to contractors, maybe even to US-based companies, thereby giving US authorities potentially unrestricted access to all such […]

July 16, 2014 · Blogs

UK: Emergency legislation on data retention pushed through

Faced with a lawsuit from NGOs challenging the legality of its data retention regulations (which are based on the data retention directive the European Court of Justice found unlawful in April 2014), the UK government brought in emergency legislation, a Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (DRIP), to not only declare data retention to be […]

June 2, 2022 · Blogs | Open letters | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards | Surveillance and data retention

Stop data retention in Germany and the European Union

Germany must show true leadership and set a strong precedent in the EU against the use of mass data retention to fight serious crimes. Mass data retention is one of the most privacy-intrusive instruments that treat everybody as criminals by presumption. It is high time that European governments implement rights-respecting and proportionate solutions in police investigations. Read the open letter EDRi and 12 civil society organisations sent to the German ministers of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to urge them to stop the use of data retention practices in crime investigations.