Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Supreme Court (Portugal))

Date: 07/13/2017

Subject: The judgment of the Tribunal Constitucional, confirms the constitutional legitimacy of article 6 – in combination with article 4 – of law 32/2008 on the preservation of data generated or processed in the provision of electronic communication services, and transposing of Directive 2006/24/EH (voided by the ruling Digital Rights Ireland Ltd and Kärntner Landesregierung), in light of the provisions of the ECHR and of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the jurisprudence of the Courts of Strasbourg and Luxembourg

Parties: Ministério Público

Original language: Portuguese

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing

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