European Data Retention Rule Could Violate Fundamental EU Law

An anonymous reader writes in with a story about the Constitutional Court of Austria objecting to the EU's data retention law. "The European Union's data retention law could breach fundamental E.U. law because its requirements result in an invasion of citizens' privacy, according to the Constitutional Court of Austria, which has asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to determine the directive's validity. The primary problem with the data retention law is that it almost exclusively affects people in whom government or law enforcement have no prior interest. But authorities use the data for investigations and are informed about people's personal lives, the court said, and there is a risk that the data can be abused. 'We doubt that the E.U. Data Retention Directive is really compatible with the rights that are guaranteed by the E.U. Charter of Fundamental Rights,' Gerhart Holzinger, president of the Constitutional Court of Austria said in a statement."

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CHEROKEE NATION WILL RETURN EU WILLING OR NOT !!

[Anonymous Coward]

They took the whole Cherokee nation
Put us on this reservation
Took away our way of life
Tonmahawk and bow and knife
Took away our native tongue
Taught their Engish to our young

And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays Made in Japan
Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe

So proud you lived
So proud you died

They took the whole indian nation
locked us up on the reservation
Though I wear a shirt and tie
I'm still a red man deep inside

Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe
So proud you lived
So proud you died

But wmaybe when someday they've learned
The cherokee nation will return
Will return
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