Earlier this year, in his most
direct comments on the issue, President Obama said in a speech at the National Cybersecurity Communications Integration Center that cyber
threats pose «one of the most
serious economic and national security challenges we face
as a nation,» and acknowledged that hacking is ongoing.
regard criminal offences such
as those referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 83 (1) TFEU
as constituting a particularly
serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society, which might pose a
direct threat to the calm and physical security of the population and thus be covered by the concept of «imperative grounds of public security» -LSB-...],
as long
as the manner in which such offences were committed discloses particularly
serious characteristics, which is a matter for the referring court to determine -LSB-...].