Data Retention Directive requires telecom providers to store data about customers’ communications in order to facilitate “the investigation, detection and prosecution of serious crime” German courts annulled the data retention law last year for interfering with fundamental rights. Civil liberties group AK Vorrat says this has made almost no difference to the prosecution of crime. Lawsuits challenging blanket data retention are currently under way in several E.U. countries and member states Austria, Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg and Sweden have not implemented the directive.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2126742/retaining-data-does-not-help-fight-crime–says-group.html