The Wall Street Journal on July 16 published a report from its Paris bureau examining how French police skirted European data privacy protections to resolve a cold case the newspaper characterized as one of the country’s most perplexing unsolved investigations. The report was highlighted in the Journal’s “The 10-Point” daily newsletter, which called it “a remarkable story” offering “a close look at how police in France skirted European privacy laws to crack one of the country’s most perplexing cold cases.”
The article, whose headline from the Journal’s metadata is “To Catch Europe’s Most Elusive Criminals, Police Look to U.S. DNA Tactics,” was produced by the Paris bureau. The “The 10-Point” newsletter, curated and edited by Morgan Smith and Bryony Watson in collaboration with Editor in Chief Emma Tucker, featured the story as its lead item. The full report is available to WSJ subscribers.