On 30/04/2024 a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union was published in which it ruled that a national public authority responsible for combating infringements of intellectual property rights committed via the Internet may have access to identification information from an IP address.
The Court specifies the requirements concerning the arrangements for retaining and accessing those data.
The Court, sitting as the Full Court, holds that the general and indiscriminate retention of IP addresses does not necessarily constitute a serious interference with fundamental rights. Such retention is permitted where the national legislation imposes retention arrangements that ensure a genuinely watertight separation of the different categories of personal data.
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