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Europe ready to overhaul data-retention law

...Commission published a report (PDF) evaluating the implementation so far of the Data Retention Directive, which came into force in 2006, and is now set... Read more

18 April, 2011 by David Meyer

EC sets out European data sharing processes

...which many MEPs say is illegal under European data protection law. The Data Retention Directive, which obliges telephony providers to store call details for law... Read more

21 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

ISP brands UK internet spying plans 'pointless'

...including social-networking sites, online game sessions, and VoIP services. The EU Data Retention Directive and RIPA's current powers mean that ISPs must keep... Read more

17 May, 2012

Britons to gain 'right to be forgotten'

...s statement.The Commission is also in the process of reviewing the Data Retention Directive, which specifies that ISPs should store communications traffic data for... Read more

5 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

EU to control US access to European financial data

...maximum retention period should be six months, in line with the European Data Retention Directive. UK Independence Party MEP for London Gerard Batten also voted... Read more

9 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

MEPs push for monitoring of internet search

...The declaration calls for search engines to be included in the the Data Retention Directive, which directs communications providers to keep logs of their users... Read more

4 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner
Who will pay price for EU data-retention plans?

Who will pay price for EU data-retention plans?

...books that helps cement the government's surveillance capabilities: the EU's Data Retention Directive (DRD), which the government must implement. The directive mandates ISPs... Read more

5 June, 2009 by Manek Dubash

Phone-call logs to be stored for a year

...Home Secretary. The Data Retention Regulations, which transpose most of the EU Data Retention Directive into UK law, were approved by the House of Lords... Read more

31 July, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Entertainment industry 'trying to hijack data retention directive

...UK digital rights organisation, has been angered by CMBA's tactics. "The data retention directive was proposed to fight terrorism. As ill-conceived as the... Read more

24 November, 2005 by Graeme Wearden and Karen Gomm

EC rubberstamps data retention directive

The EU has given the final thumbs-up to a controversial data retention directive. The legislation, which the EU says is necessary to help... Read more

23 February, 2006 by Jo Best

EU data-retention directive leaked

Details of all Internet communications will need to held for six months and phone communications for a year, under plans being mooted in Brussels Read more

2 August, 2005 by Jo Best

Data retention directive gets final approval

...recorded The EU has given the final thumbs-up to a controversial data retention directive. The legislation, which the EU says is necessary to help... Read more

22 February, 2006 by Jo Best

ISPs, telcos and police voice fears over data retention cost

...Britain contains some serious flaws, according to technical and legal experts. The data retention directive that the UK, Ireland and Sweden pushed into EU law... Read more

13 January, 2006 by Tom Espiner

European data laws to face scrutiny

...work on justice and home affairs over the next five years. The data retention directive, which compels ISPs to hold communications data for a minimum... Read more

22 April, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Gov't web monitoring plans unworkable, warns Linx

...a profile is a big ask." Hutty said that under the current data-retention directive, CSPs are required to store a limited number of details... Read more

4 August, 2009 by Tom Espiner

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