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EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION OF ALL TELECOMMUNICATIONS: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): Evaluation shows that the Data Retention Directive does not meet privacy and data protection requirements, says EDPS

01 May 2011

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EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION OF ALL TELECOMMUNICATIONS: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): Evaluation shows that the Data Retention Directive does not meet privacy and data protection requirements, says EDPS (pdf) and Opinion (pdf):

"After careful analysis of the Evaluation Report, the EDPS takes the view that the Directive does not meet the requirements imposed by the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection, mainly for the following reasons:

- the necessity for data retention as provided in the Directive has not been sufficiently demonstrated;
- data retention could have been regulated in a less privacy-intrusive way;
- the Directive leaves too much scope for Member States to decide on the purposes for which the data might be used, and also for establishing who can access the data and under which conditions."

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