The Court of Justice confirms that EU law precludes national legislation requiring a provider of electronic communications services to carry out the general and indiscriminate transmission or retention of traffic data and location data for the purpose of combating crime in general or of safeguarding national security Judgments in Case C 623/17, Privacy International, and […]
Category: Mass surveillance
Court of Justice: Automated analysis of traffic and location data and Real-time collection of traffic and location data
The Court of Justice confirms that EU law precludes national legislation requiring a provider of electronic communications services to carry out the general and indiscriminate transmission or retention of traffic data and location data for the purpose of combating crime in general or of safeguarding national security JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Grand Chamber) 6 October […]
Mass surveillance before the ECHR
Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom (no. 58170/13)Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Alice Ross v. the United Kingdom (no. 62322/14)10 Human Rights Organisations and Others v. the United Kingdom (no.24960/15) Applications communicated to the UK Government on 9 January 2014, 5 January 2015 and 24 November 2015, respectively The complaints in these […]
La Corte dichiara invalida la decisione della Commissione che attesta che gli Stati Uniti garantiscono un adeguato livello di protezione dei dati personali trasferiti – The Court of Justice declares that the Commission’s US Safe Harbour Decision is invalid
Sentenza nella causa C-362/14 Maximillian Schrems/Data Protection Commissioner schrems eng text schrems ita text