Court to discuss challenge of wiretapping regulation

Greece’s Council of State will discuss on Friday a petition by PASOK 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 (EYP) be declared unconstitutional.

Androulakis made the request after ADAE refused to let him see the file of information collected by EYP.

In 2021 the 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 if 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 goes against Directive 2002/58 of the European Parliament.