The request for a preliminary ruling has been made by the Landesverwaltungsgericht Tirol (Austria). The complainant is a German national living in Austria who refused the police access to his mobile device after the detection of drugs. The Court of Justice is asked to interpret and clarify the interpretation of Article 15(1) of Directive 2002/58/EC in light of Articles 7, 8 and 11 and Article 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, to determine whether EU law precludes the national rule in Paragraph 18 of the Austrian Strafprozessordnung that grants security authorities full access to digital data in the course of a criminal investigation.

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