Reuters | Wed Jun 28, 2017 | 2:42pm EDT:
A German regulator has suspended the launch of a law obliging German telecom companies to keep telephone and Internet data for up to 10 weeks to help fight crime, citing a court ruling.
The data retention law, which had been due to come into effect on Saturday, requires companies to keep data on the timing and duration of telephone calls, as well as online traffic through IP addresses. Location data from mobile phones is to be stored for four weeks.
A German administrative court ruled last week that storing location and connection data, without a justifiable reason such as suspicion of crime, ran contrary to European Union law.
Regulator Bundesnetzagentur said on Wednesday it would not force telecoms to store such data until legal proceedings surrounding the law had been concluded, and would not fine them for failure to store the data for the time being.
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