Back to the digital cage
September 16, 2014 -by Rozi Bakó.
Romania joined the European Union (EU) in 2007. While the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected the EU Data Retention Directive as invalid, Romanian legislators were preparing two laws which, if adopted, would throw the country into a ‘digital cage’: Draft Law 263/2014 on cyber security, and Draft Law 277/2014 on the registration of prepaid mobile SIM cards and public WiFi users. Back in 2011, Romania was at the forefront of rejecting the EU Data Retention Directive, risking sanction from the European authorities. In this context, adopting laws that violate users’ right to privacy in 2014 would be a step back for the ICT policymaking standards in the country.