This law is a disgrace for the german government, especially for those politicians that were caught reversing their stance on this.<p>Once again, the constitutional court is the only hope.<p>However, even without data retention laws in place, mobile carriers were already keeping records for months (violating data protection laws that call for minimal data retention) for &quot;accounting purposes&quot; even for customers that pay a flat fee.<p>The german &quot;Datenschutzbeauftragte&quot; have some work to do.