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UK ignoring and bypassing EU Data Directive
11 Aug 2014; posted by the editor - Human Rights, European Union, United Kingdom


On 8 April 2014 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) found the the 2006 EU Directive on mandatory data retention was unlawful and had been so since the day it was passed. The judgment followed a critical Opinion of the Court's Advocate-General delivered on 12 December 2013.  The CJEU judgment is damning in its rejection of mass surveillance based on the retention of data on every communication by everyone resident in the whole EU. 

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Tags: Mass surveillance, data retention, EU, UK
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