Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Supreme Court (Portugal))

Date: 08/30/2021

Subject: The decision of the Constitutional Court1, found the constitutional illegitimacy of the norms of article 5 of Decree n. 167/XIV of the Parliament, amending law n. 109/2009 (“Lei do Cibercrime”), for the violation of the fundamental rights to inviolability of correspondence and of communication and to the protection of personal data and of the rights of the defence, also recalling the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the ECHR and the jurisprudence of the Courts of Strasbourg and Luxembourg

Parties: Presidente da República

Original language: Portuguese

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing - Personal data: consent - Personal data: access - Justice - Art. 48 Rights of defence

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