Tag: Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (DRIPA)
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Thomas Raine: The CJEU and Data Retention: A Critical Take on the Watson Case
In Joined Cases C-203/15 and C-698/15 Secretary of State for the Home Department v Watson, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) provided further details about the requirements of EU law for the retention of communications data. The Swedish Administrative Court of Appeal and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales asked…
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Nicholas Clapham: The Authorisation of Surveillance: A Separation of Power?
Editors’ note: The UK Parliament will debate reports into investigatory powers in its session today, 25 June 2015. On 11 June the Prime Minister released the review of investigatory powers conducted by the Independent Reviewer of Terrorist Legislation, David Anderson QC. Entitled ‘A Question of Trust’, the initial media highlight was undoubtedly the recommendation that…
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Paul Bernal: Privacy, Surveillance and Brexit….
An Englishman’s home is his castle, so the old saying goes, and it might be thought that the implication is that the English place a special importance on privacy. The reverse, however, seems to be the case, when the law is considered – for much of the law that provides protection for our privacy, particularly…