The Advocate-General’s opinion of 19 July 2016 concerns two references from national courts which both arose in the aftermath of the invalidation of the Data Retention Directive (Directive 2006/24) in Digital Rights Ireland dealing with whether the retention of communications data en masse complies with EU law. Read the rest of this entry »
Human Rights and National Data Retention Law: the Opinion in Tele 2 and Watson – Lorna Woods
22 07 2016Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Digital Rights Ireland, EU Law Analysis Blog, Lorna Woods
Categories : Data Protection, EU, Government and Policy, Privacy
What if the French constitutional judges had read the Davis Judgement? Would we be living in a better world? – Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon
29 07 2015
The French Constitutional Court (Conseil Constitutionnel) issued its decision n°2015-713 DC on the recently adopted Law on intelligence on 23 July 2015. Reading its decision after having read the Davis judgment of the English High Court, one wonders whether legal syllogism has suddenly been replaced by useless tautology. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Digital Rights Ireland, DRIPA, Peep Beep!, Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon
Categories : Data Protection, EU, France
