Brussels, 01/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - The directive on data retention is ineffective in tackling serious crimes, according to a study of the German Federal Police, announced on 27 January by the NGO AK Vorrat (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung). This directive, which Germany has still to transpose since the Constitutional Court found a first draft of it to be disproportionate in March 2010, obliges telecommunications companies to keep data on their clients. Although it had the effect of...