Data Retention Directive
The now-defunct Data Retention Directive was designed to align the rules on data retention across the EU member states in order to ensure the availability of traffic and location data for serious crime and antiterrorism purposes. The Data Retention Directive is no longer part of EU law, although member states retain competence to adopt their own national data retention laws under Article 15(1) of the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) provided that those laws comply with the fundamental rights principles that form part of EU law and the CJEU ruling that struck down the Data Retention Directive. Accordingly, EU member states have introduced draft legislative amendments or implemented national data retention laws at an individual country level.
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