European Court of Justice rules data retention directive too invasive

[JURIST] The European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website] on Tuesday struck down [judgment; press release, PDF] an EU-wide law that stipulates how private data must be collected and stored. The ECJ ruled the collection of traffic and location data via the Data Retention Directive [EU backgrounder] by public electronic service companies "interferes in a particularly serious manner with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and to the protection of data," despite its usefulness in combating organized crime...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/04/european-court-of-justice-rules-data-collection-too-invasive.php

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