In 2010, one of the German courts declared the German mandatory data retention law unconstitutional after strong opposition. Later, the European Commission issued Germany’s ultimatum to transpose the Data Retention Directive. And in January 2016, the German law on data retention came into effect to ‘strengthen’ the national cyber security mandate after the Bundestag (lower house of the German parliament) voted on the factor of data retention law.
Metadata Retention Law in Germany
Rebecca James
Last updated: July 5, 2023
Reading time: 3 minutes
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