Landmark EU ruling: Legality of UK’s Investigatory Powers Act challenged

‘The legality of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act has been called into question by a landmark EU legal ruling this morning, which has restated that access to retained data must only be given in cases of serious crime.
The landmark judgment [PDF] was handed down by the European Union’s Court of Justice, setting a new precedent for EU member states’ data retention regimes, stating that access to such data must be restricted to the purpose of preventing and detecting serious crime.
The judges also stated that police and public bodies should not be allowed to authorise their own access to this data, instead requiring that access requests receive prior authorisation by independent courts or similar bodies.’
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