European Court of Human Rights
Published January 29, 2019
Catt v United Kingdom
(Application No 43514/15)
Before L-A Sicilianos, President and Judges A Pejchal, K Turković, A Harutyunyan, P Koskelo, T Eicke and G Felici
Section Registrar: A Campos
Judgment January 24, 2019
The indefinite retention of data about the peaceful political activity of a person with no criminal record on a “domestic extremism” database breached his right to respect for private life under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights because the data included information about his political opinions and the system lacked adequate safeguards.
The European Court of Human Rights so held in holding that the article 8 rights of the applicant, John Oldroyd Catt, who was aged 94, had been