| Title | Dutch Lawyers Seek to Overturn Data Retention | |
| Date | Monday December 08 2014, @11:25PM | |
| Author | Blackmoore | |
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| from the Big-Brother dept. | ||
The Register is running with a story that criminal lawyers in the Netherlands are pushing back against the country's data retention laws:
The Netherlands is the latest EU country to see pushback against excessive state surveillance of the Internet, with that country's criminal lawyers' association leading a court action against the state over its data retention laws.
The association (the NVSA) has joined forces with the Dutch Association of Journalists, Privacy First, NDP New Media, local ISP Bit, and Publiekstijdschriften. In light of the EU Court of Justice decision in April, which in April ruled that Europe's two-year data retention directive was invalid, the plaintiffs want the Netherlands' data retention regime repealed.
At the time, the EU Court of Justice ruled that the data retention regime represented a “wide-ranging and particularly serious interference with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and to the protection of personal data”, and went beyond was was “strictly necessary”.
I wonder how many other European countries are waiting to see the outcome of this particular attempt to redress the balance?
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