In Germany, telecommunications and Internet companies “could once again be forced to store customer traffic and location metadata for police investigation purposes, five years after a previous data retention law was declared unconstitutional,” PCWorld reports. Under a draft data retention law released Wednesday, providers would be required “to store call and Internet traffic metadata for a maximum of 10 weeks while location data would have to be stored for four weeks,” the report states, noting German’s government believes “it strikes the right balance between freedom and security in the digital world.” Meanwhile, The Irish Times reports that “Belgian authorities have taken Skype to court because it refused to allow two suspects’ Skype calls to be tapped. Skype says it isn’t subject to wiretap legislation.”
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