La Ligue des droits de l'Homme (LDH) has launched a procedure against Belgium’s new law requiring telecom operators to hold customer data for one year, Telecompaper reports. The human rights group contends the law is “a grave violation to the right for customers to a private life,” the report states, noting LDH has launched a crowd-funding effort to fight it. While law enforcement officials have said the law does not change anything, as such information was already held by companies, LDH’s concerns include “lack of supervision by an independent commission,” the report states.
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