(Telecompaper) A court in The Hague has suspended the Dutch legislation requiring the retention by communication providers of customer data for eventual law enforcement purposes. The judge found that the law violates personal privacy and personal data protection rights and also goes beyond what's necessary for its purposes. This is in line with a ruling last year by the EU Court of Justice that struck down the EU data retention directive on which the Dutch law is based. The request for an injunction against the law was filed by the groups Privacy First, the Dutch association of human rights lawyers, the association of defense lawyers, the journalists union NVJ and the telecom providers BIT, SpeakUp and Voys Telecom. They started the suit after the Dutch government said it plans to maintain the data retention requirement in an adapted form, despite the EU court ruling.