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EU lawyers tell Member States: Blanket communications data retention "no longer possible"

24 June 2014

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"Denmark, the UK, and many other EU governments have so far refused to follow April's landmark ruling by the EU Court of Justice annulling the Data Retention Directive, which required Telecommunications and Internet Service Providers to store detailed records about all of their customers' communications and Internet use. But civil liberties campaigners AK Vorrat have now obtained internal documents showing that at a recent closed meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers the Council's Legal Services stated that paragraph 59 of the European Court of Justice's ruling on the Data Retention Directive "suggests that general and blanket data retention is no longer possible". "

See the full text: EU lawyers tell Member States: Blanket communications data retention "no longer possible", (German Working Group on Data Retention: The Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung -AK Vorrat-, link)

And see: NGO Letter (link)

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