This is carried out under the EU Directive on mandatory data retention and: "Just last year the courts, public prosecutor's office, the police and other authorities used data concerning our electronic communication exactly 1 856
This is carried out under the EU Directive on mandatory data retention and: “Just last year the courts, public prosecutor’s office, the police and other authorities used data concerning our electronic communication exactly 1 856 888 times. It is almost half a million times more than in 2010 and 800 000 times more than in 2009.”
See: Full article (Panoptykon, link)