Translations:Recours au Conseil d État et au Conseil constitutionnel/15/en

Following the decision of the EUCJ of April 2014 "Digital Rights" condemning the massive retention of personal data, LQDN, FDN and FFDN have submitted to the French government a request to repeal the decree n°2011-219 of 25 February 2011 and the article R. 10-13 of the Postal and Electronic Communications Code. Those provisions define the data to be retained by the Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in order to allow the identification of the people having contributed to the creation of online content. They also authorise the operators of electronic communication to delay for a year the erasure of some technical data of their clients. The absence of answer from the government during two months is considered as an implicit refusal to repeal those dispositions, which is leading the three associations to refer directly to the French Council of State. The legal challenges focus on the unconventionality of the general and undifferentiated retention of "technical data" and more especially: