<i>&gt; Case in point: data retention was forced through in Iceland through the EEA agreement</i><p>That&#x27;s only half of the story.<p>Many other European countries were in the same situation as Iceland, but didn&#x27;t hurry to implement their data retention. Instead they decided to wait for the EU court ruling.<p>Also, that lawsuit came to no surprise. I bet the activists would have loved to start the lawsuit even earlier, but you can&#x27;t start a lawsuit against something that doesn&#x27;t exist yet.