Supreme Administrative Court held that police must show why data remain necessary

The limits on retaining data in the police information system are determined not merely by the fact that the data were lawfully collected, but by a continuing and specifically justified need to process them. The full text of the judgment in the Judykatura database illustrates the dispute over whether periodic data review may be treated as a guarantee that data can be retained for ten years. The Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) upheld an order requiring erasure of data from the National Police Information System.


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