Telecoms / Connection data: LWA obtained from the Council of State (Conseil d’Etat – which acts, in France, as the supreme court for matters of administrative law) the end of the generalized and undifferentiated requirement to store connection data. The Council of State has given the government 6 months to modify the applicable law. On this occasion, the judge created a “constitutional safeguard clause” (clause de sauvegarde constitutionnelle) to help settle possible future conflicts between the French Constitution and EU law

Following an appeal by the operator Free, on 21 April 2021, the Council of State…

Continue ReadingTelecoms / Connection data: LWA obtained from the Council of State (Conseil d’Etat – which acts, in France, as the supreme court for matters of administrative law) the end of the generalized and undifferentiated requirement to store connection data. The Council of State has given the government 6 months to modify the applicable law. On this occasion, the judge created a “constitutional safeguard clause” (clause de sauvegarde constitutionnelle) to help settle possible future conflicts between the French Constitution and EU law