The German Presidency of the Council of the European Union created a new draft of the proposed ePrivacy Regulation, Euractiv reports. The latest draft would allow for the processing of online communications metadata during "natural or man-made disasters" and for "monitoring epidemics." The legitimat...

Norway's Ministry of Defense announced the postponement of two chapters in the country's Intelligence Services Act, which is set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2021. The two chapters deal with the bulk collection of metadata and the ability to conduct targeted searches within the information. The decisio...

Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications company, has called into question the effectiveness of the country's metadata restrictions, ZDNet reports. The mandatory data retention regime allows 21 enforcement agencies to access retained data. However, unauthorized agencies are accessing the data...

While publishing their annual reports, three Australian government agencies revealed increases in metadata requests by law enforcement and other government entities, iTnews reports. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission had a 44% increase in requests for prospective metadata and 25% f...