Volume: 9 Issue: 4
(April 2007)
Keywords:
data
retention
transposition
data
retention
directive
law
european
union
member
states
until
15
september
implement
data
retention
directive
national
law
European Union Member States have until 15 September to implement the Data Retention Directive into national law, however may postpone application of the Directive to the internet until 15 March 2009, a path the UK has chosen. In this article Jeff Goodall, of Kemp Little LLP, provides a brief explanation of the key provisions of the Directive and examines its proposed transposition into UK law via the Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2007.