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30,000 Germans fight against new data retention law: the law requires companies to keep for 6 months records of e-mail sender and recipient addresses, time spent on the Internet and phone numbers dialed by customers. Contrast this to the passivity of other Europeans when their own countries adopted the EU Data Retention law, at least some people have memories.