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The Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance actually has a very simple question for you, Ms Malmström. When can we expect the revision of the Data Retention Directive? Your answer could actually be very simple too: ‘very soon, Ms Sargentini, because Parliament has been waiting for it for some time’.
I am afraid though that you are not going to give me that answer and you seem to have put the revision of the Directive on the back burner. The reason for this is rather harsh, I think, and it is that the Member States cannot prove that the Data Retention Directive is useful, but they are also reluctant to give up the right to store our telecoms and internet data. In fact, they want to retain that right.
There is no European law that violates privacy on such a large scale as this law, which stores European citizens’ data without them being under suspicion, without obtaining permission from a court and without demonstrable results. While you dawdle over the revision of the retention obligation, you have dragged Germany before the European Court because it refuses to comply with this law. If no one can prove that it works, it is time to abolish the Directive on storing data traffic and to replace it with an alternative, a
for example, where a court is involved and where we record and store part of the data, targeting a specific suspect. Targeted investigations, judicial control and no unnecessary violation of privacy.
Therefore, Ms Malmström, once again, please confront those Member States, remember what we saw with ACTA, that there are many people in Europe who cherish their privacy, who are willing to use activism and who can help you to change these governments’ minds."@en1
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