{"id":85323,"date":"2026-03-26T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lexxion.eu\/?post_type=dpi&p=85323"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:00:09","slug":"data-protection-insider-issue-151","status":"publish","type":"dpi","link":"https:\/\/www.lexxion.eu\/en\/dpi\/data-protection-insider-issue-151\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Protection Insider, Issue 151"},"content":{"rendered":"

-CJEU <\/span>Rules on the Systematic Collection of Biometric Data for Law Enforcement-<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

On 19<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0March, the CJEU ruled in the case of\u00a0<\/span>HW<\/span><\/i>. In terms of the facts,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the case\u00a0essentially concerned\u00a0a participant in a demonstration, who was arrested by police. Following their arrest, the plaintiff refused to be fingerprinted and photographed. In consequence, he was charged with the offence of \u2018having refused, although he was reasonably suspected on one or more grounds of having committed or attempted to commit an offence, to consent to the gathering of identification data, in particular by the taking of fingerprints, palm prints or photographs for the purposes of entry into and consultation of police databases, in accordance with the rules applicable to each of those databases\u2019.\u00a0\u2018HW and the\u00a0minist\u00e8re\u00a0public (Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office, France) each brought an appeal against that judgment before the\u00a0cour\u00a0d\u2019appel\u00a0de Paris (Court of Appeal, Paris, France), which is the referring court\u2019.\u00a0This court referred\u00a0the following three questions to the CJEU:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n