According to a series of articles in the Danish edition of Computerworld on 6 May 2013, a Danish mobile phone provider has kept telephone call records since the company started its operations in 2000. The company, Telmore, currently has about 700 000 subscribers and a 10% market share in Denmark. Since 2004, Telmore has been a subsidiary of TDC, the largest Danish telecommunications company.

A 10-year retention period of telephone call records is a blatant violation of the Danish law that transposes the e-privacy directive 2002/58/EC.

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Deutsch: Slowenien: Datenschutzbeauftragter stellt Vorratsdatenspeicherung in F...

The Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia challenged on 19 March 2013 the national implementation of data retention directive before the Constitutional Court.

The Information Commissioner holds that the data retention provisions of the Act on Electronic Communications (ZEKom-1), which came into force on 15 January 2013, do not respect the principle of proportionality and that they have been transposed into the national law in contrast with the provisions of the Data Retenti

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Deutsch: Dänemark: Regierung verschiebt Evaluierung des VDS-Gesetzes

In the coming months, the Danish Parliament will conduct an evaluation and revision of the Danish data retention law which implements directive 2006/24/EC.

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Deutsch: VDS in Österreich: Verfassungsgericht wendet sich an Europäischen Ge...

The Austrian Constitutional Court has reservations that the EU Directive on the Retention of Data could be incompatible with the European Charter of Fundamental Rights.

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Deutsch: Zunehmende Überwachung des Internets in Russland

Several normative acts that have entered into force or are being prepared in Russia bring forth an increased state surveillance over the Internet and a blacklist of blocked websites and internet addresses.

In spite of strong criticism, the Russian Duma (the lower chamber of the Parliament) seems determined to apply state and legislative actions that would limit freedom of speech and the dissemination of information on the Internet.

Thus, the final section of the Russian “Law on the Protection of Children from Information Detrim

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Deutsch: Slowakei: Verfassungsklage gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung eingereic...

The group of Slovak MPs filed the complaint against the data retention before the Slovak Constitutional Court on 9 October 2012.

They requested the Constitutional Court to rule on the local implementation of the data retention and scrutinize its conformity with the Slovak Constitution.

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Deutsch: Freiheit statt Angst 2012

The 4-day "Freedom Not Fear 2012" (FNF 2012) event came to a successful end on Monday, 17 September 2012.

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Deutsch: Tschechien: Vorratsdatenspeicherung beinahe wieder in Kraft

Nationwide preventive monitoring of electronic communication finds its way back into the Czech legal system. The original act was repealed in 2011 by the Constitutional Court – however, a new one is waiting only for the President's signature.