Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts England and Wales Court of Appeal

Date: 01/30/2018

Subject: The decision of the England and Wales Court of Appeal found the contrast with EU law of Section 1 of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (“DRIPA”) – now substituted by the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 – in the light of the decisions Digital Rights Ireland and Tele2 Sverige AB.

Parties: Secretary of State for the Home Department v. Tom Watson MP, Peter Brice, Geoffrey Lewis

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 8 Personal data: access - Art. 9 Right to found a family

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