Constitutional Court rejects prepaid mobile cards law

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) admitted on Tuesday a notification from the Ombudsman, and ruled that a law requesting the identification of the users of prepaid mobile phone cards was unconstitutional.

CCR mentioned in the release that the provisions of the law are not precise and predictable, and the way data are obtained and stored to identify the users of prepaid communication services does not provide sufficient guarantees for the effective protection of personal data from abuses and illegal use.

The Court found that the law is merely a completion of another one that it already rejected — the so-called Big Brother Law on data storage. The law rejected on Tuesday partly takes up legislative solutions that ceased to produce legal effects, after they were pronounced unconstitutional.

"Owing to the lack of any regulation regarding the way of accessing and using personal data, the law is irremediably vitiated,' CCR mentioned.

The Court's law is final and compelling. AGERPRES