Will the data retention directive be fully implemented across Europe?
Posted by Emil A. Georgiev on 23 December, 2008
Yesterday I had an interesting discussion on an, to some extent, older issue – the data retention directive – with some friends of mine.
The event to trigger the discussion was the bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court’s decision to repeal some provisions in a regulation implementing the data retention directive in bulgarian law. Appearantly, the decision was dictated by the lack of judicial revision as the acts determined in aforementioned regulation were to be undertaken solely by the administration of the Ministry of Interior.
The data retention directive was revised also on a higher level recently. The irish deliberations as to whether the directive was adopted on an appropriate legal basis appear not to be shared by the Advocate General Yves Bot.
In any case we may remain curious what the future will be as data retention in its current shape deeply affects our all’s privacy.
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