The German Parliament said Tuesday that the European Commission’s controversial Data Retention Directive may be illegal. The directive requires European communications service providers to retain data ...

European authorities have taken Germany to court for failing to implement the E.U. Data Retention Directive. The European Commission announced on Thursday that it wants the European Court of Justice ...

In a significant move, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that the Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC (Directive) is invalid. This decision is expected to have wide-reaching ...

Late last year, Denmark became the first EU Member State to pass a statute implementing the Data Retention Directive (the Directive) of the European Union.[1] The Directive is intended to improve the ...

LUXEMBOURG (CN) - Advocate General Yves Bot urged Europe's highest court to uphold a European Union directive allowing police to collect and store data from public communications networks in order to ...

This month, a highly controversial European law came into effect that raises concerns about our fundamental right to privacy. Even before the final text was officially published, the directive had ...

The EU has given the final thumbs-up to a controversial data retention directive. The legislation, which the EU says is necessary to help fight terrorism and organised crime, was passed by justice ...

The European Union has given the final thumbs-up to a controversial data retention directive. The legislation, which the EU says is necessary to help fight terrorism and organized crime, was passed by ...

The European Union's data protection watchdog has called the Data Retention Directive the most privacy invasive instrument ever adopted by the E.U. The European Union’s data protection watchdog has ...

The German Parliament said Tuesday that the European Commission’s controversial Data Retention Directive may be illegal. The directive requires European communications service providers to retain data ...