Dutch DPA says government's data retention plans still illegal
The Netherlands' Data Protection Authority has criticised that government's proposed data retention legislation.
The government put forward amendments to its data retention regime in response to the April 2014 European Court of Justice decision that invalidated the EU's Data Retention Directive (along the way causing trouble for countries that had based their laws on the DRD).
A court case was launched in November 2014 in The Netherlands to overturn the legislation. In this statement, the DPA says the current legislation should not be presented to parliament, because “the need to retain all telephony and internet data in the Netherlands is insufficiently substantiated”.
