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The EU prepares ground for wider data retention – and VPN providers are among the targets (www.techradar.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/55706105

The topic has been debated since April, when the EU Commission first unveiled "ProtectEU," a strategy aiming to create a roadmap for "lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement." The Commission then presented the Roadmap in June, which outlined an intent to decrypt citizens' private data by 2030.

Most member states argue that simply knowing who owns an account isn't enough. Instead, they want a new legal baseline where companies are forced to log exactly when and where a user was online, as well as the IP addresses they used to connect.

As AdGuard VPN's Chief Product Officer, Denis Vyazovoy, told TechRadar back in April: "A legal framework that forces VPNs to retain user metadata – potentially for a prolonged period – could make such services untenable, leading to the withdrawal of VPN providers from the EU."

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[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No it isn’t at all.

GDPR allows you to store data about people provided it’s necessary to provide the service or meet legal requirements.

GDPR prevents you from storing more data than is needed and from storing data longer than you need it.

GDPR requires you to inform users what data you are storing about them, when requested, and to delete any data you hold on users when requested.

Since this would be a legal requirement there would be zero conflict.