> France has won support for the carve out, which is justified as “essential to strike a fair balance between the need to protect the confidentiality of journalists’ sources and the need to protect citizens and the state against serious threats, whoever the perpetrators may be”.<p>So you mean this would only be applicable in cases of e.g. imminent terrorist attacks? Or ...<p>> pirating music or video
Is Uk law any better? My impression is the UK has terrible privacy laws atm.<p>And The Telegraph is notoriously antiEU and I wouldn’t trust them to report on a bagel in Brussels accurately