France is resorting to drastic measures to defend its approach to data retention. After making it a negotiating tool in February on the e-Privacy Regulation, the country is now challenging the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, several newspapers revealed on Wednesday 3 March.
To sum up, France has asked the State Council not to follow the October rulings of the Court of Justice, which prohibit the generalised and indiscriminate retention of connection data, in the...