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The Court of Justice of the European Union issued a landmark decision on 8 April 2014 invalidating the
retention of telecommunication traffic and location data by telecom
service providers and the access to that data by national
authorities under the EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC
The ECJ concluded that the Directive disproportionally
interferes with the fundamental rights of European citizens to
private life and protection of personal data. The ruling applies
retroactively to the moment the Directive entered into force on 3
May 2006. The ECJ has thus removed the legal foundation for the
current retention by the telecom service providers of
individual's traffic and location data, and the right by the
competent authorities to request that data.
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