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Legal summary
May 2024
Pietrzak and Bychawska-Siniarska and Others v. Poland - 72038/17 and 25237/18
Judgment 28.5.2024 [Section I]
Article 8
Article 8-1
Respect for private life
Inadequate safeguards against arbitrariness and abuse in legislation on measures for secret surveillance, retention of and access to communications data: violation
Article 34
Victim
Examination in abstracto of impugned legislation justified by secret nature and wide scope of surveillance measures and lack of effective domestic remedies to challenge them: victim status granted
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