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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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Proton Technologies is best known for privacy-focused software such as secure email platform ProtonMail and private network ProtonVPN. The company was also subjected to new data retention obligations for future surveillance purposes.