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The EU Data Retention Directive, formally known as "Directive 2006/24/EC" came into force on 15 March 2006. The introduction of this Directive gave rise to the UK Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 (the "Regulations") which came into force yesterday (6th April 2009).

The Regulations provide that each 'Public Communications Service Provider' is obliged to retain...

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