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Data privacy campaigner concerned law permits Minister to get ‘mass surveillance’ orders after private court hearing

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Graham Dwyer’s lawyers argued conviction is unsafe but prosecution insisted there was “overwhelming” evidence to support it

Lawyers argued outcome of 2015 trial unsafe but prosecution insisted there was ‘overwhelming’ evidence to support it

Back in April 2011, we wrote about the Czech Constitutional Court ruling that the country's data retention plans were illegal. As we noted then, many other EU countries had also run into similar problems trying to implement the European Data Retention Directive. In one of them, Austria, the issue was referred to the country's Constitutional…

The EU’s top court says mass surveillance is banned. Governments do it anyway.

General Iliad asks French supreme court to invalidate data collection under telecom law - report Monday 8 March 2021 | 11:30 CET | News Iliad has brought to Frances supreme court (Conseil dEtat) a legal case against an article of the Post and Telecommunications Code that enforces data collection on operators, according to information gathered by Next Inpact. This legal action centres on the application of the EU Data Retention Directive, which dictates how member states can store ...