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EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION: Letter to the European Commission signed by 34 NGOs including Statewatch

01 September 2011

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EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION: Letter to the European Commission signed by 34 NGOs including Statewatch: Letter (pdf):

"We remain convinced that a comprehensive impact assessment will definitively show that data retention is neither necessary for market harmonisation nor for the fight against serious crime and is, therefore, illegal."

See Statewatch's Observatory: The surveillance of telecommunications in the EU

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