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France leads efforts to circumvent ECJ's privacy ruling on indiscriminate communications data storage

France and like-minded European governments are working to ensure that a new European ePrivacy directive helps them bypass last year's ECJ ruling against indiscriminate data collection and storage. [...]
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European court weakens France's defence against 'La Quadrature du Net' ruling

The Court of Justice of the EU has ruled that a national court cannot decide alone to derogate from European law in the name of a state's constitutional principles. This was one of France's lines of defence against the "La Quadrature du Net" (LQDN) European ruling prohibiting the bulk collection and storage of traffic data.

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France and Belgium head down different paths over CJEU data bulk collection ruling, paving the way for cooperation issues

French and Belgian administrative courts differ greatly in their interpretation of the CJEU's data bulk collection and storage ruling of 6 October 2020: the French Council of State allows flexibility for the security apparatus while Belgian's constitutional court has taken a "no quarter" approach.

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