EU Advocate General Says EU Data Retention Directive Unlawful 22
An anonymous reader writes "The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice today issued their opinion that the EU Directive covering the retention of data is incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In an interim ruling in a case taken by the Irish Digital Rights movement, the AG found the limitation on a persons right to privacy imposed by the EU Directive was not properly laid down in law. The ECR has yet to make a formal ruling and is not bound by the AG opinion, however it is unusual for the court not to follow suit."
Re:WOW (Score:3, Insightful)
Such privacy, many liberty. Wow. Very data.
Re:helpful, though doesn't mandate the opposite (Score:4, Insightful)
One interesting detail is that the European Commission fined Sweden 3 million euro for not implementing the data-retention law in a timely fashion.
If the EU can't mandate data-retention then this fine was erroneous and should be repaid.
Another side effect is that those in power can't blame the EU for their respective data retention law anymore.