Sentence examples for data retention law from inspiring English sources
A data retention law was voted in during Angela Merkel's first term in 2007.
He insisted the targets of the data retention law were "criminals and paedophiles and terrorists", not media organisations.
Their complaints were heard: in March 2010, Germany's constitutional court ruled that the government's data retention law in its current form was unconstitutional.
A judge has scrapped the Netherlands' data retention law, saying that while it helps solve crime it also breaches the privacy of telephone and Internet users.
But a data retention law should also suggest its own safeguards, something which has not yet been embraced by its promoters; the government should rapidly start the difficult but necessary task of allaying the fears of civil liberties supporters.
So for example Germany was one of the first countries that was totally into this data retention law.
We need to ask how, beyond jihadists, the new national security and data retention laws will be used.
Disclosure of the data breach is likely to embarrass the Australian government after controversial mandatory data retention laws were passed last week.
