On Tuesday, 30 January, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled (Case C-118/22) that national legislation that authorises the general and indiscriminate storage of the biometric and genetic data of persons convicted of an intentional offence, until their death, is contrary to EU law.
In fact, in order to be compliant, this regulation should require those responsible for processing such data to periodically check whether it is still necessary to store [the data] in light of...