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Stop general data retention in the EU – current plans for mass surveillance

In this joint talk, four internet freedom advocates will expose and criticize current plans for general mass collection of everyone's communication data. 2022 will bring threats to Internet freedoms but also opportunities for civil society to act.
In this joint talk, internet freedom advocates will expose and criticize current plans for general mass collection of everyone's communication data. 2022 will bring threats to Internet freedoms but also opportunities for civil society to act. We need to get back to basics: let's set the default to zero mass surveillance. #DataRetention #Vorratsdatenspeicherung By the End of 2021 new documents appeared in public that show how the Commission of the European Union together with various EU member states push for new general data retention obligations [1]. From an digital fundamental rights perspective this is not acceptable. Because sensitive communication and activity data from millions of law-abiding citizens would be retained for no specific purpose. Democratic societies and liberal constitutional states must not enforce blanket mass surveillance. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has repeatedly emphasized this and declared general data retention to be lawful only in limited exceptions. The default must be: no general data retention. Nevertheless, from documents and the political debate the impression arises, that the Commission of the European Union and some governments of the Member States are trying to run over the rulings of the ECJ and fundamental rights. relevant key documents referred to in this talk: (1) 18 November 2021: CJEU PRESS RELEASE No 206/21 Advocate General’s Opinion in Joined Cases https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_3583047/en/ (2) 16 June 2021: WK 7294/2021 INIT Working Paper Contribution to the Council COPEN Working Party meeting of 16 June 2021 https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2021/07/wk07294.en211.pdf (3) 01 December 2021: Written responses to (2) from: Denmark,Finland, Germany, Hungary Luxembourg, Netherlands & Sweden https://www.statewatch.org/news/2021/december/eu-data-retention-strikes-back-options-for-mass-telecoms-surveillance-under-discussion-again/ [1] Definition General and Indiscriminate data collection (DE: anlasslose Vorratsdatenspeicherung | F: Conservation généralisée des données de connexion) is the collection of the location and communications data of the entire population, regardless of whether they are suspected or accused of a crime.

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