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The EC Data Retention Directive: Legal Implications for Privacy and Data Protection

The EC Data Retention Directive: Legal Implications for Privacy and Data Protection

Nóra Ní Loideain
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781609600839|ISBN10: 1609600835|EISBN13: 9781609600853
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-083-9.ch015
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Loideain, Nóra Ní. "The EC Data Retention Directive: Legal Implications for Privacy and Data Protection." Personal Data Privacy and Protection in a Surveillance Era: Technologies and Practices, edited by Christina Akrivopoulou and Athanasios Psygkas, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 256-272. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-083-9.ch015

APA

Loideain, N. N. (2011). The EC Data Retention Directive: Legal Implications for Privacy and Data Protection. In C. Akrivopoulou & A. Psygkas (Eds.), Personal Data Privacy and Protection in a Surveillance Era: Technologies and Practices (pp. 256-272). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-083-9.ch015

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Loideain, Nóra Ní. "The EC Data Retention Directive: Legal Implications for Privacy and Data Protection." In Personal Data Privacy and Protection in a Surveillance Era: Technologies and Practices, edited by Christina Akrivopoulou and Athanasios Psygkas, 256-272. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-083-9.ch015

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Abstract

The focus of this paper is the new European legislation designed to harmonize domestic laws on the retention of telecommunications data for the purpose of assisting law enforcement efforts. The European Union introduced the EC Data Retention Directive in 2006. This Directive requires the retention of every European citizen’s communications data for up to two years for the purpose of police investigation. There is, however, a major problem with the Directive in that it regularizes, and thereby entrenches, the practice of data retention across Europe. No systematic empirical evidence supports the introduction of such broad surveillance. The existence of data retention in principle raises concerns for data protection and the right to respect of privacy as protected under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). This paper questions the proportionality of the Directive in line with data protection principles and Europe’s obligations under Article 8 of the ECHR.

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