EU court rejects requirement to keep data of telecom users
This decision has immediate consequences for us here in Germany. As our own constitutional court ruled that the law implementing the directive was invalid, we did not have a data retention law for some time now, since lawmakers wanted to wait out this decision.<p>So data retention is dead here in Germany and will fall in many other European countries. It is still possible that the court will allow for a severely restricted version of data retention and of course the police can access ISP billing logs if they have a court order, but blind mass-surveillance is a thing of the past.<p>Yay!