Subject: Re: DP analysis re the retention
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Ian W asked:
>A question which keeps recurring to me, having now read the case, is
>what is it that the UK government is not afraid of, and yet nearly
>everybody else is, and why?
A possible explanation is that some European countries don't need to pass
national legislation for the Convention rights to have effect. Also, all the
other COE members states with the exception of Iceland (I think) have written
consitutions and in many of these privacy is an enumerated constitutional
right.
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