The Czech Republic's constitutional court has overturned parts of an antiterrorism law that require telephone operators to retain data on all calls, faxes, text messages and e-mail exchanges, reports Seattlepi. The court ruled that the practice is unconstitutional, calling it a "massive" intrusion into citizens' privacy and not in keeping with the law. Fifty-one members of parliament appealed to the court to overturn the law. Meanwhile, the Dutch Lower House of Parliament plans this month to revisit a corrective law that would lower data retention requirements in that country from 12 to six months, reports Telecompaper.
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