In early 2009 the UK Home Office announced the second phase of the European Union Data Retention Directive (EUDRD). As a result, the responsibility for storing and managing all internet communication ...

The European Union’s highest court held today (8 April) that EU rules requiring telecommunication companies to store call data, which is used by law enforcement authorities to fight terrorism and ...

The Court of Justice has ruled that the Data Retention Directive entailed a wide-ranging and particularly serious interference with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and to the ...

28 November 2005 European regulators are heading for a showdown over controversial plans to force telecom and Internet service providers to retain communication data. Members of the civil liberties ...

Mobile data retention practices used in the case against Graham Dwyer, who was convicted of murder, breached European law, Europe’s top court has ruled. The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled ...

PARIS — France’s highest administrative authority on Wednesday avoided a direct clash with the EU’s top court while offering partial support for the country’s data retention practices. In a mixed ...

The EU Data Retention Directive was criticised for breaching "fundamental" privacy rights. The European Court of Justice has today ruled that the Data Retention Directive is invalid, meaning mobile ...

The ruling affects metadata from calls and texts, shows who communicated and where; lawmakers must revise rules, tightening ...

Europe's lawyers were on a collision course with the UK presidency of the European Union this week, when they strongly opposed British proposals to strengthen data retention rules to combat terrorism.

Thousands of lives could be at risk after High Court courts judges ruled snooping powers were unlawful in a humiliating defeat for Theresa May. Senior judges said the Data Retention and Investigatory ...