The leaked draft directive was published on the webpage of European Digital Rights, an NGO engaged for internet users' rights. It emerges just seven weeks after the Parliament's unanimous rejection of an earlier proposal on the indiscriminate storage of all internet and telephony traffic and location data.
As compared to the previous proposal, storage periods have become shorter for most data, and the concerns of internet service providers and of telecom companies have been addressed by introducing a possibility for reimbursement of 'demonstrated additional costs'.
The Commission's proposal is seen as competing with a compromise achieved by the Justice and Home Affairs Council to retain only telephony data in a first step and internet data only later. A finalised version of the leaked document is expected to be published in August.
