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Comment by therealmarv | Hacker News Reader

hold on, what Germany wanted to do (blanket data retention) is a reality for a long time in other states in EU. There are many countries collecting for 6+ months all connection data (e.g. France or Spain). A map is in this German article from 2019

https://netzpolitik.org/2019/vorratsdatenspeicherung-in-euro...

So this becomes illegal in other EU member states now too? Does anybody have any inside how this will change EU data retention in general?

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It has been illegal at least since the Grand Chamber judgments on the cases of "Big Brother Watch" and "Centrum för Rättvisa" last year [0]. Though, really, the outcome was fairly predictable for anyone following the field.

TLDR; Continuous "General and indiscriminate retention" is not compatible with EU fundamental rights.

[0]: https://europeanlawblog.eu/2021/06/08/big-brother-watch-and-...

I believe you have to retain tax-related data (customer invoices, bills, payments etc) for ~2 years or however long your local jurisdisction requires. I don't think that will go away since such laws mirror the long-standing laws used in normal accounting. This should be related to non-ecommerce related data.

We have 6 months and 10 years for tax stuff here in Switzerland too. I thought it was quite reasonable. At least there is a set date when you can and have to delete stuff.

You are also not allowed to use a customer database for advertising if the customer is no longer one for more than 6 months.

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