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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11363
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha

UK emergency data retention law illegal

Brussels, 20/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - The High Court in London ruled on Friday 17 July that the emergency law on the retention of telecoms data introduced in 2014 by the former Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in the wake of the annulment of the European directive on the same matter is illegal and incompatible with the right to privacy.

The High Court ruled that certain provisions of the 2014 Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (Dripa) were incompatible with...

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