British and French spies can only be handed access to the personal data of phone and Internet users when there’s a “serious threat” to national security, the European Union’s top court ruled.
In a judgment welcomed by citizens’ rights campaigners, the EU Court of Justice said the bloc’s law bans wide-scale measures forcing Internet and phone operators to carry out “the general and indiscriminate transmission or retention of traffic data and location data”.
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