In today’s Queen’s speech (which sets out the UK Government’s legislative agenda), a number of proposals were made which will impact the UK telecoms sector:
data retention
Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón issues damning opinion on the Data Retention Directive
Last week (12/12/2013), a serious blow was dealt to one of the fundamental building blocks establishing the legal framework for retention of data for law …
Europe to review data retention rules
Readers will recall from the curious case of Mr Spitz that European telecoms operators already retain very large amounts of information about their customers. In an …
Mobile operators obliged to retain location information across Europe
There has been some coverage recently of the case of Mr Spitz. Malte Spitz is a German green party politician and privacy advocate. He went …