In her opinion delivered on Thursday, 15 June, Advocate General Laila Medina at the Court of Justice of the EU believes that an individual must be able to have a judicial remedy against an independent supervisory authority when he or she is refused access to his or her personal data (Case C-333/22). She also considers that a blanket exemption to the right of direct access to personal data in criminal matters is not compatible with EU law.
In fact, after the Belgian National Security...