Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”

Re:Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever pa... by fierarul on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:29PM (#12979443)

How is this any different from the EU Data Retention Directive we've had for a decade already?

Somebody should make a "feature matrix" and explain this.

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Re:Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever pa... by hoodunit on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:53PM (#12979689)

Are you referring to the Data Retention Directive [1], which was invalidated in 2014? Or are there still other EU-wide laws on data retention?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

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Re:Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever pa... by fierarul on Thursday November 17, 2016 @05:04PM (#12982162)

I wasn't aware it was invalidated. Of course, once each member state implemented this directive into national law and I don't believe the national laws immediately became void.

For example, a quick google shows that just last month the Constitutional Court in Romania declared the Big Brother law doesn't infringe on the constitutional rights so data retention continues. All data is kept for 3 years.

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