Brussels, 16/03/2015 (Agence Europe) - After the Home Affairs Council on Thursday 12 March, European Migration and Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos explicitly ruled out a new European directive on data protection, more specifically telecommunications data.
A first draft of the legislative text, dating from 2006, requiring telephone/internet operators to retain their clients' communications data for up to two years was annulled by the Court of Justice of the EU in April 2014...