Portugal: Data retention sent to the Constitutional Court

A new chapter is expected to soon be written in the long battle between lawmakers and the Constitutional Court in Portugal, regarding the intelligence services’ access to data retention. In January 2018, 35 Members of the Parliament (MP) from three parties officially requested the Constitutional Court to provide a rule on the constitutionality of the new law that grants intelligence services access to retained data.

The Constitutional Court has already declared the unconstitutionality of a similar law in 2015, after the president requested a preventive ruling by the Court, before signing the law.

Source: Portugal: Data retention sent to the Constitutional Court – EDRi