Data Retention Directive
Data Retention Directive
European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, Directive 2006/24/EC on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC.
Note that as of 8 April 2014 the Directive was declared invalid, see “Court of Justice of the European Union, PRESS RELEASE No 54/14”, Luxembourg, 8 April 2014 http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-04/cp140054en.pdf Links to an external site.
Slide Notes
European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, Directive 2006/24/EC on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC, Official Journal L 105, April 13, 2006, pp. 0054 - 0063 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006L0024:EN:HTML Links to an external site.
Transcript
[slide393] There's also a lot of controversy about the Data Retention Act keeping these records. And of course there's a Finnish and Swedish model that differ. In Sweden, the government requires the operators to keep it, and they pay them whenever they have to access it. In Finland, the government pays them to keep the data, and then when they want to access it, they don't have to pay.