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Belgium wants to ban Signal – a harbinger of European policy to come
Just over seven years ago, a Dutch court threw out the Dutch Telecommunications Data Retention Act. Under that law, telecommunication providers were obliged to retain metadata about our communications for up to two years. This did not concern the content of a message or conversation, but information about who has contact with whom. And when. And the location of the participants. It was almost inevitable that the court would invalidate this law: European judges previously declared the European Data Retention Directive invalid, and the Dutch law was its national implementation.
https://edri.org/our-work/belgium-wants-to-ban-signal-a-harbinger-of-european-policy-to-come/
