We can read on the European Data Protection Board website that it “adopted a statement on the European Commission’s proposal for an EU Police Cooperation Code. This proposal aims to enhance law enforcement cooperation across Member States, in particular the information exchange between the competent authorities. The code is comprised of three main measures: proposal...
A release of the US Department of Justice reports that the US and UK intend to bring into force the Agreement on Access to Electronic Data for the Purpose of Countering Serious Crime (“Data Access Agreement”), which was signed in 2019, on Oct. 3, 2022. It will be the first agreement of its kind, allowing...
The Constitutional Court of South Korea has unanimously ruled as unconstitutional the law that authorized mobile carriers to share personal data with law enforcement agencies without notifying the user. The court also ruled that the law violates the right to self-determination of personal information. Earlier, the South Korean’s Telecommunications Business Act allowed mobile carriers to...
The press release of the UK Information Commissioner Office (ICO) informs that the Commissioner has called on the criminal justice sector to immediately stop collecting excessive amounts of personal information from victims of rape and serious sexual assault cases. The call is published in a Commissioner’s Opinion which informs the sector how to use victims’ personal...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that national authorities cannot retain phone data in a “general and indiscriminate” manner, while specific information could be used to tackle heinous crimes. Generally, the Court said that national courts are to decide on the admissibility of evidence, but that the general rule should...
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