International group calls for an end to EU data retention

The San-Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has called for the E.U.'s Data Retention Directive to be abolished, saying that the law, which requires telecom companies to retain logs of subscribers' network use, is "disproportionate and unpopular with citizens."

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