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EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION: European Court of Justice: Advocate General condemns massive storage of communications data

12 December 2013

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"The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice today issued a devastating Opinion on the European Directive that requires European telecommunications providers to store details of all electronic communications for between six months to two years...The Advocate General’s Opinion states that the Directive “is as a whole incompatible with Article 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union”. In particular, the measure is not necessary and does not “genuinely meet objectives of general interest recognised by the Union"."

See: Advocate General condemns massive storage of communications data (EDRi, link)

And see: Opinion of Advocate General Cruz Villalón delivered on 12 December 2013 (C-293/12, pdf)

Background: Statewatch report for SECILE Project:
Data Retention in Europe: A Case Study (pdf) by Chris Jones & Ben Hayes

Media coverage: Data Retention Directive CLASHES with EU citizens' privacy rights, says top lawman (The Register, link)
Advocate-general says data retention rules breach fundamental rights (European Voice, link)

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