GERMANY IN LINE WITH DATA RETENTION DIRECTIVE.

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Germany has joined the relatively small group of EU member states that have fulfilled their obligations regarding the transposition of the 2006 Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC), it was indicated to Europolitics Information Society on 8 January. The directive places an obligation on telecom firms to retain at least six months' worth of e-mails, phone calls and internet data for possible police use. The deadline for the transposition of the directive into national law fell on 15 September 2007. On 27 November 2007, the European Commission began infringement proceedings against all EU member states except France, the UK, Spain, Belgium, Latvia, Denmark, the Czech Republic and Estonia for failing to notify...