In a judgement delivered on Tuesday 2 October in the ‘Ministerio Fiscal’ case (C-207/16), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that criminal offences that are not particularly serious may justify access to personal data retained by providers of electronic communications services, provided that that access does not constitute a serious infringement of privacy.
In the case in point and in the context of an investigation into the robbery of a wallet and mobile telephone,...