http://www.digitalrights.ie/2009/02/10/european-court-upholds-data-retention-for-the-time-being/ Civil, Legal and Human Rights in a Digital Age Tue, 21 May 2013 21:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.digitalrights.ie/2009/02/10/european-court-upholds-data-retention-for-the-time-being/comment-page-1/#comment-96966 B. Davidson Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:47:35 +0000 http://www.digitalrights.ie/?p=166#comment-96966 The true irony of this whole privacy nightmare is that the laws being implemented by member states at present are anything BUT harmonised. Duration of retention, defined items to retain and mechanisms for retrieval are all over the place. Worse still, within the same nation differing understandings (and lack thereof) by individual providers (and law makers) is creating an even further lack of harmony. Saying that this is directive is correctly legally founded under economic harmonisation is laughable - the costs to providers, especially multinational ones, is phenomenal. It's not like it's a "service" providers can charge customers for, either. Keep up the fight, please, this directive is a massive failure with respect to implementation and it's still early days! The true irony of this whole privacy nightmare is that the laws being implemented by member states at present are anything BUT harmonised. Duration of retention, defined items to retain and mechanisms for retrieval are all over the place. Worse still, within the same nation differing understandings (and lack thereof) by individual providers (and law makers) is creating an even further lack of harmony. Saying that this is directive is correctly legally founded under economic harmonisation is laughable – the costs to providers, especially multinational ones, is phenomenal. It’s not like it’s a “service” providers can charge customers for, either. Keep up the fight, please, this directive is a massive failure with respect to implementation and it’s still early days!

]]> http://www.digitalrights.ie/2009/02/10/european-court-upholds-data-retention-for-the-time-being/comment-page-1/#comment-96950 cearta.ie » Data retention ironies Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:21:02 +0000 http://www.digitalrights.ie/?p=166#comment-96950 [...] let Digital Rights Ireland tell the story: European Court upholds data retention… for the time [...] [...] let Digital Rights Ireland tell the story: European Court upholds data retention… for the time [...]

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