The court or independent administrative body responsible for authorising access to telephone records in order to identify the perpetrators of an offence, and for the prosecution of which offence national law envisages such access, must be entitled to refuse or restrict that access: such was the judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU delivered on Tuesday 30 April (case C-178/22).
In the context of a criminal investigation into the aggravated theft of two mobile phones, the Public...