There's more. There's technical standards, procedures and laws accross europe for the storage, retrieval and processing of metadata and other information. it's

There's more. There's technical standards, procedures and laws accross europe for the storage, retrieval and processing of metadata and other information. it's called ETSI Lawful Interception see: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception#Technical_description http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception#Technical_d... * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception#Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception#Europe * http://www.etsi.org/index.php/technologies-clusters/technologies/security/lawful-interception http://www.etsi.org/index.php/technologies-clusters/technolo... * http://webapp.etsi.org/WorkProgram/Report_WorkItem.asp?WKI_ID=25520&curItemNr=43&totalNrItems=44&optDisplay=44&titleType=all&qSORT=HIGHVERSION&qETSI_ALL=&SearchPage=TRUE&qTB_ID=608;LI&qINCLUDE_SUB_TB=True&qINCLUDE_MOVED_ON=&qSTOP_FLG=N&qKEYWORD_BOOLEAN=O http://webapp.etsi.org/WorkProgram/Report_WorkItem.asp?WKI_I... * http://webapp.etsi.org/WorkProgram/Report_WorkItem.asp?WKI_ID=24772&curItemNr=44&totalNrItems=44&optDisplay=44&titleType=all&qSORT=HIGHVERSION&qETSI_ALL=&SearchPage=TRUE&qTB_ID=608;LI&qINCLUDE_SUB_TB=True&qINCLUDE_MOVED_ON=&qSTOP_FLG=N&qKEYWORD_BOOLEAN=O http://webapp.etsi.org/WorkProgram/Report_WorkItem.asp?WKI_I... This has been in place much longer than the "data retention" directive.