KACZMAREK v. POLAND - 16974/14 (Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life : First Section)

Art 8 • Private life • Correspondence • Disclosure of a recording of applicant's telephone conversation during a press conference and storage and retention of data obtained during a covert surveillance operation of which she was not a subject • Interferences not "in accordance with the law"

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

Marko Bošnjak , President , Alena Poláčková, Krzysztof Wojtyczek, Lətif Hüseynov, Péter Paczolay, Ivana Jelić, Gilberto Felici , judges , and Ilse Freiwirth, Section Registrar,

the application (no. 16974/14 ) against the Republic of Poland lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") by a Polish national, Ms Honorata Kaczmarek ("the applicant"), on 19 February 2014;