Press Release: Judgment in Joined Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12. Digital Rights Ireland and Seitlinger and Others

The Court of Justice declares the Data Retention Directive to be invalid.

It entails a wide-ranging and particularly serious interference with the fundamental rights to respect for private life and to the protection of personal data, without that interference being limited to what is strictly necessary.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: EU court scraps data surveillance law http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-court-scraps-data-surveillance-law/

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