EU sues Sweden, demands law requiring ISPs to retain data

The EU passed the Data Retention Directive years ago, a law that demands ISPs and search engines hold onto data long enough to help the cops (but not long enough to cause privacy problems). But Sweden never passed it into national law, and the European Commission has now sued the country to make sure a bill appears.The European Commission has moved to sue Sweden after the Nordic state failed to implement the EU’s Data Retention Directive in a timely fashion.The Directive was passed back in 2006 and requires all EU member states to implement some form of data retention legislation, with terms of six month to two years. National laws were to be in place by March of this year, but Sweden still has yet to introduce a bill of its own.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/eu-sues-sweden-demands-law-requiring-isps-to-retain-data.arsAlso see:Sweden challenges EU data retention directive [IDG]
Sweden is being sued by the European Commission for not implementing a European Union directive requiring network operators to retain details of phone calls and e-mail messages.Instead of hurrying the implementation process, some politicians view the suit as an opportunity to challenge the directive’s consistency with the European Convention on Human Rights.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052709-swedish-politicians-challenge-eu-data.html
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