(Image by flyerwerk from Pixabay via Courthouse News) LUXEMBOURG (CN) — Personal cellphone data can be used only in the investigation of serious crimes, the EU’s high court found on Tuesday. In its decision, the European Court of Justice noted that, unless it’s for a serious crime or in the interest of public safety, countries are prohibited from obtaining location data under the European Union’s 2002 Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive. “The access of state authorities to data making it possible to identify the source and destination of a telephone communication from a suspect’s landline or mobile telephone, to determine the date, time, duration and type of that communication, to identify the communications equipment used and to establish the location of the mobile communication equipment used amounts to interference with the fundamental rights at issue which is so serious that such access should be restricted to combating serious crime,” the Luxembourg-based court wrote.