Jusletter IT

The European Court of Justice ruled in 2014 that the EU Data Retention Directive was invalid. It follows the revelations by Edward Snowden in 2013 about the highly controversial and wide ranging surveillance of anybody whose digital footprint has any contact with the USA. Both demonstrate significant and avoidable failures of policy development and implementation. Yet there is a well established Framework for managing and avoiding such risks whenever coercive and covert powers are being considered for law enforcement or national security purposes. It is the «4As Framework» developed years ago by the Privacy Commissioner of Australia. This article describes the Framework.