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Proposed changes to UK law affecting telecoms operators

19 May 2016 by Rob Bratby

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:

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Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón issues damning opinion on the Data Retention Directive

16 December 2013 by Rob Bratby

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 …

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Europe to review data retention rules

18 April 2011 by Rob Bratby

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 …

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Mobile operators obliged to retain location information across Europe

28 March 2011 by Rob Bratby

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 …

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