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European Court of Justice: Police may search phone for minor crimes

The European Court of Justice has ruled that police services may search the telephones of persons involved in minor crimes. EU member states must have a clear legislative framework for this and prior permission is required for non-urgent cases.

"If access to data on mobile phones is restricted to serious crimes, this could seriously limit the investigative capabilities of the authorities," the Court wrote in a press release . According to the Court, the risk of impunity for criminal offences could also increase in that case. The Court stipulates that EU Member States must have a legislative framework in place that specifies with sufficient precision when and in which cases an interference with a person's private life is legally valid, and in which cases it is not. Law enforcement agencies that wish to access data on a data subject's mobile phone must, in non-urgent cases, obtain prior consent. Such consent may be granted by a judge or by an independent administrative authority. The data subject whose data is accessed must also be informed of the grounds on which such consent was given.

The European Court of Justice is providing further clarification on a recent court case in Austria, in which a suspect's mobile phone was accessed by the police. The suspect, who was arrested after being caught with 85 grams of cannabis, had sued the police for taking his phone and attempting to search it.

“We’re all bored now. But has it ever occurred to you, Wally, that the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks and it’s not just a question of individual survival, Wally, but that somebody who’s bored is asleep and somebody who’s asleep will not say no?” - Andre Gregory in 1981’s My Dinner With Andre

Getting ready to watch day two of COPA vs Wright.

On day 1, it came out that Craig had "found" a FOURTH tranche of evidence in the eleventh hour, after the three previous ones had been found to be forgeries, and now wanted to rely on those.

Today, the witness statement of COPA lawyer Philip Nathan Sherrell was made public, and it shows that the latest batch of evidence is unsurprisingly of the same quality as the previous three.

Most hilariously, Craig has submitted photos of a computer screen, supposedly sent to him by a mysterious lawyer "Mr Makaya".

Unfortunately for Wright, the photos show (among many other things) a google chrome icon with what seems to be Craig's picture, showing him as logged in.

Read the full witness statement here: