Documents recently made available to the public through Statewatch reveal that EU member states are exploring all options to keep - if not expand - their current data retention programmes, despite an EU Court of Justice ruling that blanket data retention is illegal. Member states are focusing on the use of a new concept called 'restricted data retention', which is actually just blanket data retention under a new name, along with amendments to the draft e-Privacy Regulation to facilitate data retention.
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National Governments Plan to Ignore EU Court on Data Retention
Documents recently made available to the public through Statewatch reveal that EU member states are exploring all options to keep - if not expand - their current data retention programmes, despite an EU Court of...
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