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EU Court of Justice rules against ‘general and indiscriminate’ data retention by police

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Dwyer appealed to the Irish Court of Appeal and argued that traffic and location data of his phone calls were improperly admitted as evidence at trial. Dwyer separately initiated a civil action in Ireland’s High Court challenging a 2011 Irish data law on the basis that it violated EU law.

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Proton successfully appeals government surveillance obligations

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The company was also subjected to new data retention obligations for future surveillance purposes. The Court on Friday concluded that email services are different from conventional telecommunication providers in Switzerland, and thus, should not be subject to the same kinds of data storage requirements.