EU reverses Bulgarian life sentence for biometric criminal records

The EU’s Court of Justice has given bloc nations flexibility to decide when criminals’ biometric identifiers can be destroyed.

Even convicted criminals should have at least the hope that their data will be erased prior to their death, which is when the information now is relinquished by the Bulgarian government.

The decision follows a referral from the Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court. A Bulgarian man had been convicted of failing to be truthful as a witness to a crime.

The witness …

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