On April 8, the European Court of Justice made a clear decision invalidating the EU data retention directive. Legal scholar Sebastian Leuschner hits the floor running with an op-ed on what this landmark decision means for national data retention laws.
News and Research articles on EU Data Retention Directive
The European Court of Justice today decided against the EU legislator and declared the data retention directive of 2006 null and void. A historic judgement, many parties say, and it means that implementations have to be rolled back all over Europe.
The EU Data Retention Directive - which requests the retention of communication data of EU Citizens - is “as a whole incompatible” with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, determines Europe's top lawyer. What happens now?
Member states and EU bodies had to answer tough questions at the hearing of the European Court of Justice on July 9, 2013. The final ruling about the constitutionality of the EU Data Retention Directive is expected at the end of 2013.
After years of legal fights before national courts the Luxembourg court will hold a hearing on cases brought forward by Austria and Ireland.