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There are probably a lot of technical details involved but I don't think you can make such national laws or in case you can you probably can challenge them and get them retracted. The decision is more or less based on universal human rights and they should apply to EU and national law in the same way.

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The Data Retention Directive has already been struck down locally in every state where it has reached the highest courts, so especially after this, a similar law will probably not survive.

It might actually be better if a high court deems the national law to be just fine, since you might get a verdict in the European Court of Human Rights.

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