Top court to discuss Androulakis’ challenge of wiretapping regulation on Friday

Greece’s Council of State will discuss on Friday a petition by PASOK-Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Nikos Androulakis requesting that a government regulation forbidding the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE, from informing those who have been previously monitored by the National Intelligence Service to be declared unconstitutional.

Androulakis resorted to the top court after ADAE rejected his request to show him the file of information collected by the EYP, after his immunity was lifted without his knowledge.

In 2021 government changed the law that allowed people targeted by EYP for security reasons to be informed about the nature of their surveillance after it had ended, when no incriminating evidence had been discovered.

Androulakis argues that forbidding disclosure of surveillance for reasons of national security is against the Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and that it does not agree with Directive 2002/58 of the European Parliament on the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the field of electronic communications.