Police access to personal data retained by ISPs is a matter of proportionality
On October 2nd 2018, the Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) held a decision confirming the conditions of access to personal data retained by providers of electronic communications services by the police in the context of a criminal investigation. CJEU concluded that as the interference that the access to personal data entails is deemed not serious, access to such data can be justified by the objective of preventing, investigating, detecting and prosecuting ‘criminal offences’ generally, without it being necessary that those criminal offences to which it relates be ‘serious’.
