Does this mean that phone location data and communications cannot be used as evidence from now on?
No. But all data won't be stored indiscriminately for 2 years as was the case previously.
I guess they will keep some data for a short time e.g. a month to facilitate billing etc. but then they have to delete it.
Phone companies i.e. providers can be ordered to store and provide data on a specific individual or group by the authorities, and in this case it can be kept longer.
And there is an exception for national security threats.
Legislation underpinning the retention of data by gardaí will be amended following a successful EU court challenge brought by convicted murderer Graham Dwyer, the government has announced. In April, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that the "general
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There was a similar ruling in Germany last year, the internet providers were happy because it was costing them a lot to save everybody's internet data for months.
According to the German Minister of Justice data retention or "the storage of telecommunications data without any reason" could soon come to an end.
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