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EU verdict strains legs for one of the police's most important investigative tools | India | DR A murder case from Ireland means that the Danish police can only use teledata in terrorist cases. Serious cases that have nothing to do with terrorism. News from several authority sources has learned. The telecommunications industry confirms that the police have gained access to less data. as they have otherwise done for 20 years. © Ritzau ScanpixTeleselskabers constantly record where we use our phones and who we communicate with. That data is one of the most important tools of the police when investigating a crime. It is also among the most used types of evidence when defendants are to be convicted or acquitted in trials.The reason is that April 5 said no to Irish police having to use telecommunications information in a murder ag from 2013, when the woman Elaine O'Hara was killed. According to, a man was convicted solely on the basis of telecommunications information. There were no witnesses or physical evidence in the case. The convict appealed the decision to the Irishman, who referred the question to where he got. assessed that there was data storage that could violate the right to privacy. However, it would have looked different if it was data in a case where there was against national security, it reads according to The Guardian. In other words, the police can only obtain telecommunications information in cases involving terrorism, but not in, for example, murder or rape cases. and the police.- I would like to confirm that the judgment has in practice meant that there is access to fewer data and that ambiguities have arisen in relation to what the police have access to of the telecommunications' fault cleaning data. This is something that we are currently in dialogue with both the Ministry of Justice and the police about, says director Jakob Willer. result.- It will have consequences for the police investigation of serious crime such as gang crime and rape. It is important for me to emphasize that the ruling does not change the fact that telecommunications providers are still obliged to log on in general and undifferentiated in order to protect national security. in the police it is a "huge problem too". News tries to get a comment from Nick Hækkerup. The police and makes extensive use of teledata in cases of serious crime. It often happens when a mobile phone is registered on one of the many telemasters. In this way, the police can clarify the perpetrator's whereabouts. This has happened in the case where the radio host was killed and the bombing in front of the Danish Tax Agency in Copenhagen. These are both cases where the Minister of Justice has highlighted the use of teledata as an important tool for the police. News has been trying to get a comment from. They did not want to line up.