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Fight against crime, concerns in European Parliament about work of ‘High-Level Group’ on law enforcement access to telecommunication data

Brussels, 23/03/2023 (Agence Europe)

Member States, including France, Belgium, Ireland and Denmark, are reportedly seeking to circumvent the Court of Justice of the EU’s judgments on the ban on the retention of telecommunications data for mass surveillance purposes, according to leaked documents in the German media, reported on 22 March by German MEP Patrick Breyer (Greens/EFA).

The MEP is particularly concerned about the work of the High-Level Group set up in mid-February by the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council on...