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Daily Dashboard | Will the UK soon stand alone on data retention? Related reading: UK Parliament committee to review EU-UK adequacy agreement

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This week, Advocate General Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe, senior advisor to the European Court of Justice, dealt new British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans for increased surveillance powers a serious blow. In his formal opinion on cases Tele2 Sverige AB v. Post- och telestyrelsen (C-203/15) and C-698/15 Secretary of State v. Watson and Others on national data retention obligations in Sweden and the U.K., respectively, Øe said that while such obligations may be compatible with EU law, they must be subject to a long list of safeguards and are only really justifiable in combating serious crime. The key question: What constitutes “serious crime”? The Privacy Advisor’s Jennifer Baker explores the many potential answers to that question, and what it means for the U.K.’s current and pending data protection laws in a post-Brexit world.
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