Very little has been known or reported from yesterday’s hearing on data retention in the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
The hearing was conducted as a part of British and Swedish cases – arguing that data retention in the respective countries should end, as a consequence of the ECJ ruling in 2014 overthrowing the EU Data Retention Directive.
As data retention is found to be in breach of human rights on an EU level, the same should apply on a national level – the argument goes.
I will try to find out more about yesterday’s hearing. And if you find any links, please post them in the comments to this blog post.
The next step in this affair is said to be the Advocate Generals recommendation to the court – to be delivered July 19. (Normally the ECJ will follow this recommendation. But the process is slow, taking several months more.)
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http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo1_6581/?dateDebut=12/04/2016&dateFin=12/04/2016
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But no information on the heading yesterday, except that it was scheduled for yesterday.
In the following paper
ARTICLE 29 DATA PROTECTION WORKING PARTY Adopted 13 Apr
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/documentation/opinion-recommendation/files/2016/wp237_en.pdf
there is a link made to another case
CJEU, Case A – 1/15 (on the validity of the PNR Canada agreement)