A bloody nose for Big Brother?
On the ECJ ruling on German data retention
The Story
Europe’s highest court has told Germany that it is not allowed to order the mass collection of data on its citizens’ telephone and internet usage, thus hammering the final nail into the coffin of a law passed by Angela Merkel’s government in 2015.
For anyone who has forgotten, long before we were hit by gas shortages, inflation, novel pathogens and lockdowns, we lived in a world that was gripped by fear of online terrorism and cyber crime.