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EU Court Endorses Minor Privacy Intrusion for Petty Crime

Posted on October 2, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Barbara Leonard reports:

Stealing a phone may not be a particularly serious crime, but the European Court of Justice concluded Tuesday that gathering certain telecom data about the thief likewise is not too serious a breach of privacy.

The robbery at issue occurred on Feb. 16, 2015, but police believed that they could track down the culprit if they knew what telephone numbers had been activated on the stolen phone between Feb. 16 and Feb. 27.

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