Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court Rules Bulk Data Retention Unconstitutional; EU Says No New Snooping Directive Coming

Glyn Moody reports:

Just last week we reported that a Dutch court had set aside the country’s national data retention law; now Bulgarian judges have done the same:

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court ruled on March 12 to declare provisions in the Electronic Communications Act mandating the bulk collection of telecommunications data as unconstitutional.

The challenge to the national law came soon after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) had ruled that the European data retention directive was “invalid“.

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