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EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION: European Commission sits on the fence

24 July 2014

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The European Commission is sitting on the fence with regard to data retention, saying it is up to each of the 28 EU states to decide whether to change their national laws in the light of the CJEU judgment declaring the EU Directive on mandatory data retention "unlawful": European Parliament question (link) and answer (link)

And see: Scrapped EU surveillance law throws doubt on US data agreements (euobserver, link): "A decision by the EU court earlier this year to scrap a controversial data retention directive may have implications for existing international data agreements and EU proposals under review. “We will have a debate on the question of the compatibility of these international agreements with EU law here in the parliament,” German Green Jan Phillip Albrecht said."

See: Green/EFA study: Data Retention after the Judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (pdf)

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