CJEU decides on the implications of storing personal data of individuals convicted of crimes under EU Directive 2016/680, focusing on the right to erasure and the principle of proportionality.
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After seven years the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany put a definitive end to the debate on data retention – ruling it incompatible with EU law.
The Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) ruled Tuesday that data retention in Germany is not compatible with EU law.
The national court may not impose a temporal limitation on the effects of a declaration of invalidity of a national law that provides for such retention
The great majority of EU justice ministers on March 15 once again called a new Europe-wide collection of traffic and location data of the entire population (data retention).
Phone data helped clinch murder conviction for Graham Dwyer in 2015 but he may go free.
The French Supervisory Authority CNIL in July has issued new updated guidelines on data retention. These Guidelines aim at providing practical tools to help defining the relevant rules to organize data retention and accordingly the retention period applicable for each step of the personal data processing life cycle so that the personal data are not […]
Google will no longer save a complete record of every search made by new users, the company says, as it launches a push to promote its privacy credentials against concerted competition from arch-rival Apple. The company will now automatically delete its saved records of a new user’s activity on the web and in its apps […]
The Court of Justice for the European Union will hear challenges to the data retention laws of the UK, Belgium, and France. The Court previously invalidated European and national data retention laws that required companies to retain communications data for law enforcement purposes. The new challenges, brought by civil society organizations, contend that European national […]
A U.S. senator Wyden is giving the four telecommunications companies until Sept. 4 to outline how they plan to better protect customer data privacy. Wyden said that current rules that are in place that surround data retention are not enough, and that the telecom companies have been able to skirt them. The Federal Communications Commission […]