Category: Justice and Fundamental Rights
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Private Message Scanning Survives in Europe Until 2028
Strasbourg: Europe will keep letting companies scan private messages for child abuse imagery until 2028,…
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Secret Evidence Cannot Strip a Parent of the Right to Appeal
The Hague: A parent facing expulsion on the strength of a file they are never…
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Top EU Court Lets Regulators Seize Staff Work Emails
Companies facing dawn raids across Europe lost an important shield this summer. The Court of…
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Blanket Import Checks Fall Foul of Single Market Law
A quiet judgment from Europe’s highest court has handed traders a sharp new weapon against…
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Antitrust Inspectors Can Seize Company Emails Without a Warrant
Luxembourg: A dispute born in Portuguese boardrooms has handed Europe’s judges a chance to redraw…
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Publishing Doping Offenders’ Names Online Clears a Privacy Test
Graz: A ruling from the Court of Justice has settled a nagging question about doping…
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Secret Evidence Cannot Bar a Fair Appeal, EU Judges Rule
Ghent: The Court of Justice of the European Union has told governments that secret evidence…
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Sweden Loses Bid to Shield Criminal Records From Data Protection
Stockholm: A Swedish website that sells access to people’s criminal convictions cannot escape EU data…
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Sport’s Governing Bodies Face a Tougher EU Rulebook Now
A quiet shift in how Europe governs sport arrived this July, and it came not…
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Judges Let Regulators Seize Company Emails Without a Warrant
Vienna: Europe’s top court has ruled that competition regulators may grab business emails during raids…
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Selling Criminal Records Online Is Not Journalism, Court Rules
Stockholm: A Swedish website that lets anyone pay to look up a stranger’s criminal records…
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Eurojust Reform Aims to Untangle Europe’s Arrest Warrant System
The Hague: Europe’s system for handing over suspects across borders works well on paper and…
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Top EU Court Widens Data Protection Complaint Rights
A run of EU data protection rulings this summer has strengthened the hand of ordinary…
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Court Backs Wider Powers to Seize Business Emails
Companies across the European Union face a sharper enforcement landscape after the Court of Justice…
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Europe’s Top Court Backs Naming Athletes Who Break Doping Rules
Bratislava: An athlete who breaks the sport’s doping rules can be named in public, and…
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Luxembourg Court Limits Unlawful Evidence in Data Cases
Graz: The European Union’s top court has drawn a firmer line around unlawful evidence, ruling…
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FIFA’s Agent Fee Cap Survives Europe’s Highest Court Challenge
The Court of Justice of the European Union handed FIFA a partial victory this month,…
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Judges Allow Competition Raids to Seize Emails Without a Warrant
Antwerp: A company’s inbox has become fair game for Europe’s antitrust enforcers, even when no…
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Top Court Backs Naming Doped Athletes, Bars Auto-Shaming
Professional athletes caught doping can have their names, the length of their bans and the…
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Data Complaints Can Run Alongside Court Cases, Judges Rule
Vienna: Europe’s top court has told privacy regulators they cannot brush off a citizen’s complaint…
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Streaming Users Win Firmer Cancellation Rights in EU Court
Graz: Streaming subscribers across the European Union gained sturdier cancellation rights this month after the…
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Why Europe’s Plan to Age-Check the Internet Will Be Tested
Brussels: Europe has decided that the internet should be able to tell a child from…
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Judges Weigh How Far Judicial Independence Should Travel in Europe
Warsaw: A dispute that began in a Polish courtroom and travelled to Ireland has forced…
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Top EU Court Curbs Blanket Naming of Data Rule Offenders
Luxembourg: Europe’s highest court has drawn a firmer line around how far governments may go…