EC closes an infringement procedure against Romania
The procedure has been launched for not introduction into national law of the European directive which obliges providers to store data on telephone and internet traffic.
Articol de Mihaela Mihai, 22 Februarie 2013, 21:11
The European Commission closed the infringement procedure against the Romanian community on the topic of much contested "Big Brother" law concerning the storage of traffic data for all users of mobile telephony and the internet.
The procedure was launched two years ago to not introduction into national law a directive which obliges providers to store traffic and location data for the phone calls and the internet.
In the summer of last year, the Parliament passed the Bill much contested "Big Brother", which provides storage for six months of data of all users of mobile telephony and the internet but not the content.
The data stored will be destroyed at the end of the storage period "
According to the law, the stored data will be destroyed at the end of the storage period, except as required by law enforcement bodies and who had received approval to be transmitted.
A similar law passed in Romania in the year 2008 was declared unconstitutional a year later, on the grounds of violation of the right to privacy.
Several NGOs and associations have warned early last year that the new legislative proposal not only that does not resolve issues of unconstitutionality, but even more dangerous is a variant for the rights of citizens, with a vague and unclear procedures for data access.
Translated by
Denisse-Meda Bucura
