Air data ruling could affect data retention law dispute

The verdict comes only a week after Dublin announced that Ireland had started a legal challenge to test the judicial bearing of the recent EU data retention directive, which also concerns the processing of possibly sensitive personal data.An EU official in Brussels told the EUobserver that although Dublin had not publicly made a link between the two EU data deals, a lot of people believe there is a strong thread linking them.

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