Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts High Court of Ireland (Ireland)

Date: 12/06/2018

Subject: The decision of the High Court, analyses the legitimacy of the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011, in the part concerning the access and conservation of phone data by the authorities for the prevention, investigation or persecution of serious crimes, in the light of the constitutional norms, of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the ECHR and applying the consolidated jurisprudence of the Courts of Strasbourg and Luxembourg, in particular the decisions of the EUCJ in the cases Digital Rights Ireland and Tele2 Sverige

Parties: Graham Dwyer v. Commissioner of An Garda Síochána, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Ireland and Attorney General

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing - Personal data: access - Art. 11 Freedom of expression - Freedom of information - General provisions - Art. 52 Scope of guaranteed rights

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