A draft of the European Directive on data retention has been leaked, revealing that Brussels will be asking for all communications records to be held for a minimum of six months. The latest version of ...

"The provisions of the EU directive will apply not just to mobile and fixed telephony, but also to Internet telephony, e-mail services and messaging services." The EU Directive on Data Retention, ...

The German Parliament said Tuesday that the European Commission’s controversial Data Retention Directive may be illegal. The directive requires European communications service providers to retain data ...

LUXEMBOURG (CN) - Advocate General Yves Bot urged Europe's highest court to uphold a European Union directive allowing police to collect and store data from public communications networks in order to ...

European legislation on data retention which is in soon to become law in Britain contains some serious flaws, according to technical and legal experts. The data retention directive that the UK, ...

European authorities have taken Germany to court for failing to implement the E.U. Data Retention Directive. The European Commission announced on Thursday that it wants the European Court of Justice ...

The European Union’s data protection watchdog has called the Data Retention Directive the most privacy invasive instrument ever adopted by the E.U. On Friday the European Data Protection Supervisor ...

The European Union has given the final thumbs-up to a controversial data retention directive. The legislation, which the EU says is necessary to help fight terrorism and organized crime, was passed by ...

The European Union's data protection watchdog has called the Data Retention Directive the most privacy invasive instrument ever adopted by the E.U. The European Union’s data protection watchdog has ...