Despite the decision of the European Court of Justice that the directive to store personal data is invalid, Dutch Minister Opstelten of Justice sees no reason to follow this decision. The data retention law stays effective in the Netherlands.
The Minister argued in an Orwellian statement: > The retention of certain data of all citizens is necessary, since we can not know in advance which stored data belongs to suspect and non-suspect citizens.
The government made it thus very clear that it sees all citizens as potential suspects and not as citizens with basic rights such as privacy, freedom...
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