In Australia, the entertainment industry is strongly supporting data retention–to fight online piracy.
Content industry lobbying is globally coordinated, so we should expect something similar if this issue is to be reopened in the EU.
That might happen soon–as the European Court of Justice has suspended the EU data retention directive, finding that it violates human rights.
Some EU countries have declared blanket data retention now being an obsolete concept, while others like the UK and Sweden have no intentions to stop the practice.
This will lead to competition issues on the single European market, for the EU Commission to tackle. (Competition issues was the pretext for an EU directive in the first place.)
There is also a slight possibility that the Commission backs of–and leaves the data retention dilemma to the respective member states. That would move the fight from Brussels to 28 national parliaments.
But we can be pretty sure that there will be a battle, as the copyright lobby has locked on target.
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