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The Slovak Constitutional Court on Risk Profiling and Automated Decision-Making by the Tax Authority

The Slovak Constitutional Court just published its eKasa decision, dealing with the constitutionality of indiscriminate data collection of store receipts and their subsequent re-use for risk profiling of companies. Context Some years ago, the Slovak legislature adopted a law mandating the collection of all store receipts in the country. Every receipt issued by a sole

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Data Retention Challenge Earns Historical Victory for Privacy

I am sure all of you already know by this time about the epic privacy ruling – Digital Rights Ireland C-293/12 – that the Court of Justice of the EU yesterday handed down. This post won’t be a usual legal analysis on which you are used to. I think that more learned colleagues and experts

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Data Retention Reached Slovak Constitutional Court

I am very happy to report this case. Its something I and my colleagues at EISi have been working for more than two years. But let our EISi press release speak for itself: The group of Slovak MPs filed the complaint against the data retention before the Slovak Constitutional Court. In its complaint it requests

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Digital Rights Ireland Case: CJEU vs. Data Retention

So after two years of waiting for the Irish preliminary reference concerning the constitutionality of the date retention directive, we finally got it. The case C-293/12 Digital Rights Ireland could be, lets hope, very positive landmark ruling in the field of privacy in the digital age. The filled questions are so far not published on

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Czech Constitutional Court Gives Another Decision on Data Retention

On Wednesday (4.1.), the Constitutional Court of Czech republic delivered its second decision on data retention (see the first here). This time, it concerns unconstitutionality of the procedure of obtaining the data stored on the basis of the data retention laws. The Court found the procedure in question to be too vague, in breach of

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Data Retention held Unconstitutional in Czech republic

Great news coming from Brno today. Constitutional court of Czech republic ruled this morning that data retention provisions of Electronic Communication Act are in breach of right to privacy and informational self-determination and therefore invalidated respective provisions. There is no data retention regulation since today in Czech republic! .. contested legislation violates constitutional

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Data Retention Status Quo in Slovakia

On the 4th of October, European Information Society Institute filled a complaint (in Slovak bellow) to General Prosecution of the Slovak Republic (Generálna prokuratúra SR) concerning unconstitutionality of the data retention law in Slovakia. It has now two months to scrutinize the complaint and thoroughly assess whether to file a complaint to the Constitutional Court