News: Romanian Constitutional Court Strikes Down Data Retention Directive

From EDRI: The Romanian Consitutional Court (CCR) has declared the Data Retention Directive incompatible with the Romanian constitution. The case was initiated by a Romanian NGO, the Civil Society Commissariat, who sued its mobile phone company for retaining traffic data according to the new regulations, forcing a CCR ruling on the law's constitutionality:

CCR has accepted the motion for law's unconstitutionality through decision 1258/2009, based on the breach of article 28 of the Romanian Constitution, which stipulates the secrecy of correspondence. Other articles invoked were articles 25, 26 and 30 which deal with freedom of movement, privacy and freedom of expression respectively.