After thorough review, the Danish DPA ruled against allowing use of Google Analytics, having determined that the tool’s settings and terms of use don’t comply with EU regulations. This follows like decisions earlier this year by Austria and Italy and is seen to represent a common position among EU regulators.

Germany’s controversial data-retention law pertaining to telecom has been found to be incompatible with EU law by the European Court of Justice (EJC), so is now overturned. The law, which had permitted user data storage for up to ten weeks and permitted German law enforcement authorities to request it from the telecommunication companies, was a revision of an earlier law rejected by a German court. The EJC’s decision is consistent with arguments it has made against Sweden, France, Belgium and the UK over what was deemed unnecessary data retention.