EU high court strikes down metadata collection law
European Court of Justice.
The Europeans get it right. They have rejected the practice of surveillance on private individuals without their consent. They do not allow the government to poison their public water supply with (“fluorine”), or destroy their heritage seed crops with genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) seeds. The point being, it can be done and at least in this matter, they got it right.
EU high court strikes down metadata collection law
Citizens made to feel that they “are the subject of constant surveillance.”
by Cyrus Farivar – Apr 8 2014, 9:25am CDT
While the United States continues to debate metadata collection conducted in secret by the National Security Agency, the European Union has been openly collecting the same sort of data for eight years.
In the wake of terrorist attacks in Madrid (2004) and London (2005), the European Union passed a directive in 2006 requiring that all telecommunications providers retain all kinds of telephone and Internet metadata for at least six months and provide it to law enforcement upon request.
According to a ruling handed down Tuesday by the European Court of Justice, that directive is now invalid.
SOURCE: ARC technica
