1st Edition

Criminal Justice and Data Protection Communication Metadata under EU Human Rights Law

By Isadora Neroni Rezende Copyright 2026
334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

The use of traffic and location data in criminal justice is now a common prac-tice in the EU and beyond. Although metadata do not reveal the contents of communications, they allow to draw precise conclusions on the private lives of users, like their everyday habits, places of residence, daily movements and ac-tivities, social relationships, and frequented environments. For this reason, they are... Read more

Introduction; Part I: Setting the Scene of the Analysis in a Complex Legal Framework; 1. Communications Metadata and Fundamental Rights in the Criminal Domain; 2. Methodology: Aligning Privacy, Data Protection And Criminal Procedure through Fairness; Part II: Preventive Acquisition of Communications Metadata; 3. Preventive Surveillance in the Convention; 4. Preventive Surveillance in the European Union; 5. Interception and Retention of Communications Metadata in Europe; Part III: Communication Metadata in Criminal Investigations; 6. From Preventive Operations to Criminal Investigations; 7. Access and Interception of Communications Metadata; Part IV: Communication Metadata as Evidence at Trial; 8. The Admissibility of Communications Metadata as Evidence; 9. Effective Remedies for the Fair Use of Communications Metadata as Evidence; 10. Conclusion.

Biography

Isadora Neroni Rezende is a research fellow in Criminal Procedure at the University of Bologna. She received her PhD in Law, Science and Technology from the University of Bologna, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2023, within the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Her research topics include the application of AI technologies in criminal justice, digital investigations, privacy and data protection, and surveillance.