Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Supreme Court (Portugal))

Date: 06/27/2018

Subject: The decision of the Constitutional Court, also applying the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg, confirmed the constitutional legitimacy of article 8(2) of law 5/2008 (according to the version provided for by law 40/2013), where it provides the collection of DNA samples, for criminal investigations and the inclusion in the database, ordered by the judge after the final judgment, of a person convicted of a malicious crime to detention for three years or more

Original language: Portuguese

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

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