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Wed 03 Mar 2010Germany overturns law on retention of phone, internet records
GERMAN DATA protection campaigners have vowed to challenge an EU directive on data retention after a law governing its implementation in Germany was dismissed as an unconstitutional “intrusion”.
A 2008 German law obliged telecommunications companies to retain for six months all citizens’ telephone and internet data, as called for in a 2006 EU directive.
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