Member States may impose a general and undifferentiated obligation on Internet service providers to retain IP addresses in order to combat criminal offences.
This was the ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU on Tuesday 30 April in case C-470/21, in response to a request for a preliminary ruling in a dispute between four French associations (La Quadrature du Net, la Fédération des fournisseurs d’accès à Internet associatifs, Franciliens.net andFrench Data Network) against the...